The status page: page discovery without the guesswork

What is actually going wrong

Page discovery for the status page one at a time is fine, and a list of them is not. The status page sits at no fixed URL, because there is no convention and never was one, and page discovery has to work around it. One thing page discovery on the status page rarely accounts for: guessing the path works often enough to look reliable and fails silently when it does not. Page Finder Extractor carries 2 ready made setups for page discovery on the status page.

Why it matters

There is no convention for where the status page lives, so guessing the path works often enough to look reliable and fails silently when it does not.

Doing it end to end

1. Start with one of the status page you already know, so a wrong page discovery answer is obvious rather than plausible.
2. Run Page Finder Extractor across your list of the status page, which carries 2 ready made setups for page discovery.
3. Read ten rows of page discovery on the status page by hand before you trust the rest of the list.

Traditional Search Tools

• A site search operator, for the status page. Free, precise, and rate limited into uselessness past twenty companies.
• Google with a site operator. Free and precise. Fine for twenty companies, and rate limited into uselessness past that.
• Screaming Frog. Crawls a whole site and finds every page matching a pattern. Built for one site at a time rather than a list of hundreds.
• Guessing the URL. Try slash pricing. It works surprisingly often and fails silently, which is the problem.
• Search the site. A site search in Google with the term you want gets you there in one query per company. Reliable, and it is still one query per company.

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• Page Finder Extractor2 preconfigured tasks on this page's job.