initialize crawl

key: url

Author: DrewWick

WebCrawler/App.config

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     <supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.5" />
   </startup>
   <appSettings>
-    <add key="url" value="https://www.ndsu.edu/" />
+    <add key="url" value="" />
     <!-- What site do you want to crawl? -->
     <add key="logTextFileName" value="C:\Users\awick\OneDrive\Documents\GitHub\WebCrawler\WebCrawler\log.txt" />
     <!-- Point this to some location that exists on your machine -->

WebCrawler/Model/Crawler.cs

@@ -75,9 +75,15 @@ public Crawler(IRepos externalUrlRepository, IRepos otherUrlRepository, IRepos f
         }
 
         //Initializing the crawling process.
-        public void InitializeCrawl(string url)
+        public void InitializeCrawl(string key, string url)
         {
-            CrawlPage(url);
+            //var crawlUrl = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["url"];
+            Configuration configuration = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(ConfigurationUserLevel.None);
+            configuration.AppSettings.Settings[key].Value = url;
+            configuration.Save();
+
+            ConfigurationManager.RefreshSection("appSettings");
+            //CrawlPage(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["url"]);
         }
 
         /*//Initialisting the reporting
@@ -108,9 +114,6 @@ private void CrawlPage(string url)
                 //links.Add(url);
                 log.Add(new Log($"New Entry: {url}", DateTime.Now));
 
-
-                //AddUrlToList(topic);
-
                 linkParser.ParseLinks(page, url);
 
                 //Add data to main data lists