I got Sitescooper working (great tool, BTW) with the latest version of Plucker and wanted to share the (trivial) solution.

 

I am running Sitescooper with the version from CVS, so the changed variables that people have mentioned being a problem with older versions of Sitescooper (doc_name and doc_file -> db_name, db_file in Main.pm) was already fixed. But it needs to be fixed if you are using version 3.1.2 of Sitescooper.

 

I installed Plucker 1.6 to the default location. It seems that they changed the name of the main entry point for building a pdb file. What used to be plucker-build (which was I guess a batch file or exe) is now a python file. The only change I needed to make was to the sitescooper.cf file where I added the line

 

Plucker: "C:\Program Files\Plucker\parser\python\vm\python" "C:\Program Files\Plucker\parser\python\pyplucker\spider.py"

 

In addition, I needed to create the .plucker directory in my profile directory (on windows XP, it's located at "C:\Documents and Settings\username"). You will need to do this from the command line (e.g. run "md .plucker" when at "C:\Documents and Settings\username") because Windows Explorer has a problem with making directories that start with a period.

 

Once I did those 2 things, the -mplucker option worked great.

 

The latest version of the Plucker viewer is great – I highly recommend trying it!

 

David

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