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setStopScrapingOnExtractorPatternTimeout

void session.setStopScrapingOnExtractorPatternTimeout ( boolean stopScrapingOnExtractorPatternTimeout ) (professional and enterprise editions only)

Description

If this method is passed the value of true, it will cause screen-scraper to stop the current scraping session if an extractor pattern timeout occurs.

Parameters

  • stopScrapingOnExtractorPatternTimeout true or false

Return Values

None

Change Log

Version Description
5.5.36a Available in Professional and Enterprise editions.

Examples

Indicate that the scraping session should be stopped when an extractor pattern timeout occurs

session.setStopScrapingOnExtractorPatternTimeout( true );

// You can also access the current value like so:
session.log( "Stop scraping on extractor pattern timeout: " + session.getStopScrapingOnExtractorPatternTimeout() );

todd on 03/08/2012 at 1:08 pm