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Updated Scraper Reference (markdown)

Thibaut Courouble committed 12 years ago

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6565 * `root_path` [String] **(inherited)**
6666 The path from the `base_url` of the root URL.
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68+* `initial_paths` [Array] **(inherited)**
69+ A list of paths (from the `base_url`) to add to the initial queue. Useful for scraping isolated documents.
70+ Defaults to `[]`. _(Note: the `root_path` is added to the array at runtime.)_
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6872 * `dir` [String] **(required, `FileScraper` only)**
6973 The absolute path where the files are located on the local filesystem.
7074 _Note: `FileScraper` works exactly like `UrlScraper` (manipulating the same kind of URLs) except that it substitutes `base_url` with `dir` in order to read files instead of making HTTP requests._