afeld/tangle

recursively scan all pages under the given path

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#4 opened on Jun 7, 2016

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Description

Suppose http://example.com/ has two sub-pages besides the root: http://example.com/foo and http://example.com/bar/baz. If the URL given is http://example.com, all three pages should be scanned. If the URL given is http://example.com/foo, only that and http://example.com/bar/baz should all be scanned, not http://example.com/.

This should probably be a flag, but not sure if scanning recursively should be the default or not.

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Implement recursive scanning by adding a ` recursive` flag that determines whether to scan sub pages. When enabled, after scanning a page, extract all internal links and scan them recursively, respecting the given base path. Ensure no duplicate scanning by keeping a visited set.
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go
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backendtooling
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3
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Clear
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GoHTML parsing
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65