Managing Files

bscott — Mon, 23 May 2011 14:32:13 GMT

I need access to the contents of documents in the CrawlRequestCompleted event. For PDFs, I'm able to get this easily from the byte array attached to the CrawlRequest using the PDFManager's GetText(byte[]) method. For Office documents, the best I've been able to do so far in the API is use DOCManager's GetText(string discoveryPath) method, which I believe grabs the file off of the hard drive. Ideally, I would prefer not to save the files to hard drive, though.

These are the approaches I'm considering

Delete each file after I'm done processing it
Find another way to read the document contents

Which would you recommend, and how would you recommend I go about it? I've had trouble figuring out how to do the former through the API. For the latter, I imagine I can find a solution from outside Arachnode, but I was hoping there might be something built in.

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Managing Files