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The Sites tab allows you to define a list of webpages that DEVONagent Pro scans (crawls) or searches when you use this search set. DEVONagent Pro downloads each of these pages and tests whether it matches your query, just like a private search engine of your own. Alternatively it runs a site search on it using common search engines. Use it together with the default query to scan your frequently visited pages for important keywords.

Search Set Editor, Sites Tab

Managing the Sites List

To add a page to the list, enter the URL into the location field at the bottom of the window. If the page requires a user name and password, enter them into the appropriate fields. Click the + button to add the page. To remove a page, select it in the list and click the - button.

You can also use drag-and-drop or copy/paste to add URLs to the sites list, and use the context menu to open the page in a browser window or copy the URL. This also adds the title of the page to the Info column when possible. You can copy URLs in this list to the clipboard or drag them to other applications, too.

You can use ranges like [01-31] or [1-31] to quickly add whole ranges of URLs. Add "https://www.classicfm.nl/playlist/per-dag/201202[01-29]" to add all playlist from .../20120201 through .../20120229.

Uncheck a page to exclude it temporarily from being scanned; check the page to include it in the next search run.

Crawl vs. Search mode

DEVONagent Pro can either crawl (scan) or search sites added to the list. You can set this option individually for each site.

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    Crawl: Downloads the page and adds it to results when it matches the query.
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    Search: Searches the site using common search engines. The found results are downloaded and added to the results when they match the query.

Depending on your settings, promising links are followed.

Taking over URLs

To take over bookmarks from other applications and create new search sets from them, use drag-and-drop or copy/paste, or import bookmarks or OPML files. Open the settings editor and use File > Import or the Action menu to import bookmarks from Camino, Firefox, OmniWeb or Safari, as well as OPML files generated by news readers or DEVONthink.

Context menu

The context menu allows you to work with website addresses selected in the sites list.

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    Open: Opens the selected sites in separate web browser windows.
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    Open In Tabs: Opens the selected sites in separate tabs in a new web browser window.
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    Launch URL: Opens the website in your default web browser.
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    Enable/Disable: Checks or unchecks an item. Unchecked (disabled) websites are not scanned when using this search set.
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    Copy: Copy the URL of the selected website to the clipboard.
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    Paste: Pastes a URL from the clipboard to the list, effectively creating a new item.
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    Delete: Deletes a selected item.