Crawl Flash Files with Website Search Engine

It is possible to XML sitemaps and HTML sitemaps of Flash websites. Just point our sitemap generator program to a Flash-to-HTML or Flash-to-XML conversion tool.

Enable Crawl of Flash Based Websites

First we need to enable crawling content inside Flash files:

crawl flash websites enable

After this we point our website search engine to a Flash to HTML conversion tool executable:

crawl flash websites tool

Adobe released such a tool as part of their SDK for Flash:

Alternatively, swfmill can also be used by A1 Website Search Engine:

http://swfmill.org/

After having configured above, crawl your website as you normally would when using A1 Website Search Engine.

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By having a search engine on online or offline website, you can ensure more of your visitors stay on your site. Having a search box helps visitors find what they are searching for.

This help page is maintained by Thomas Schulz

As one of the lead developers, his hands have touched most of the code in the software from Microsys. If you email any questions, chances are that he will be the one answering.