Off-Site Links Limits

[Big Pete]

I isilox a blog site daily. He has a lot of links to other cool pages on his own website and often has reference links to articles on other sites.

My problem is that I'd like isilox to follow links within the site to a depth of 4-5. However I would like to follow off-site links ONLY to the linked article so that I don't end up with a 40MB file.

In otherwords, I'd like to limit link depth to one (1) for offsite links, but allow a link depth of maybe 4-5 for onsite links.

Anyone know how that would be done?

[darkcompass]

I'm not sure if thats possible in the current version, a nice to have for future??? :D

[fcampbel]

It can probably be done once you figure out the add and remove selected URLs section of the properties. I have not been smart enough to understand the rules.

[darkcompass]

I've done the reverse of this from the BBC news website where rather than grabbing three layers of all news, specify individual urls from the bbc news menu.
You would need to look into the top page (specify that you do not want to follow off-site links, and grab 4 layers), then specify the offsite links you want separately into the document list (giving them 2 layers each), but if this changes on a regular basis, as a blog usually does, then it's going to be a pain to manage.

[Voltage Spike]

I have not tested the results, but perhaps the "Follow only links that are sub-folders of the root source paths" checkbox would drastically cut the size down (based on the assumption that the linked documents are bottom-level documents, as is usually the case).

Unfortunately, it may completely prevent the external links from working. It was just a thought.

It can probably be done once you figure out the add and remove selected URLs section of the properties. I have not been smart enough to understand the rules.

It depends on Big Pete's situation, but I doubt that exclusion filters can solve his problem. The external web sites (probably) do not follow a set pattern for which he can develop a rule.