Optional Features

Email notifications

The crawler can send email notifications if it made some changes or if new data was inserted. This is (currently) only available if the crawler runs as server side script of CaosDB. You need to add the following section to your .pycaosdb.ini

[caoscrawler]
send_crawler_notifications=True
public_host_url=https://example..eu
sendmail_to_address=someone@example.de
sendmail_from_address=caosdb-no-reply@example.eu

This feature uses the sendmail functionality of caosadvancedtools. Thus, it uses the setting

[Misc]
sendmail = /usr/sbin/sendmail
#sendmail = /usr/local/bin/sendmail_to_file

to decide what tool is used for sending mails (use the upper one if you want to actually send mails. See sendmail configuration in the LinkAhead docs.

You can even supply the name of a custom CSS file that shall be used:

[advancedtools]
crawler.customcssfile = theme-research.css

Crawler Status Records

The crawler can insert and update Records that contain essential information about the data integration process. This is (currently) only available if the crawler runs as server side script of CaosDB. To enable this, add the following to your .pycaosdb.ini

[caoscrawler]
create_crawler_status_records=True

You also need to add the data model needed for this as desribed by crawler_run_model.yml.