seemanta,

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:37 AM, seemanta patnaik
<seemantapatn...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> Hello Everybody,
>
> I have a requirement to crawl a website from my base existing
> software(program) and to push the output into an xml file. Please let me
> know if there is any API on w3af which can be called from my base program
> for crawling a website.

Nop,

> Alternatively I wrote the following batch script & called it from my base
> program (platform- w3af version 1.0-rc2 on Windows XP Professional OS):-
>
> plugins
> discovery webSpider
> output console, textFile, xmlFile
> output config console
> set verbose True
> back
> output config textFile
> set verbose True
> set fileName result2.txt
> back
> output config xmlFile
> set fileName result2.xml
> back
> back
> target
> set target <URL>
> back
> start
>
> On executing the above w3af script it was observed that both textFile
> (result2.txt) & xmlFile (result2.xml) are created. However result2.xml
> contains no data while textFile contains the required output. I have already
> tried various options but still facing the same problem.

Are you waiting until the end of the w3af process? I think that the
xml file is created in memory, and then written all at the end.

>
>
> Please let me if i am missing something in the script.

I don't think so,

>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Seemanta
>
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