URL type

URL types can be used to:

• Store metadata about any URL using all the features of PSML properties.
• Extract, and store as editable properties, metadata from a URL where the source is HTML.

Extraction of URL metadata

PageSeeder can extract metadata when creating URLs or on existing URLs. Administrators can go to the global template page, click Manage global types, then the Reprocess button.

Reprocessing is useful:

• When your URL template has been changed, or
• When the source websites might have been updated and have new or changed metadata.

To preview the raw metadata, click show more on the display in the main section when viewing a URL document. Alternatively, the metadata properties can be viewed anywhere the document properties are displayed, including the document info & metadata panel.

When uploading PSML containing links, the URL metadata is automatically extracted where possible but by default won’t overwrite metadata for an existing URL.

If the user has permission to edit all URLs, then:

• To overwrite existing metadata, on the Upload document dialog, select Developer options, then select the “Overwrite metadata and document properties (title, docid, publication id/type, description, labels)” option.
• Any PSML metadata for URLs included in the upload is used instead of extracting it from the URL source.

Configuration of URL types

Configuration of a URL type is global for the whole server and can be done by administrators on the Global template page, click Manage global types, then Create URL type. Then click create in the Config column for that type.