machine501

With the recent news about Google possibly using Adobe’s Search SDK to index text in swfs I thought I’d post a quick howto for downloading the sdk and testing out your swfs to see what they look like to the link extractor.

First, download the SDK:

http://www.adobe.com/licensing/developer/

Scroll down to where it says “SEARCH ENGINE SDK”

Click on “Begin the licensing process for the Search Engine SDK” (or click here http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=search_sdk)

Follow the instructions for signing up and wait for an email.  Once you receive an email it will tell you where to download the sdk.   Download the zip file.  If you’re on windows, extract it to your hard drive.

Use your command line to navigate to this location. I put mine on c:\work\search_sdk\

go into the “windows” directory in that folder: c:\work\search_sdk\windows

Type:

swf2html [name of swf you want to index]

you’ll see an a bunch of HTML showing you links and text in the swf.  Read the README.html file in the archive to find out what exactly the SDK indexes.

I haven’t tried this on linux and I don’t know if it compiles on OSX.

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