Program to find links for future product releases on sites

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Hi,

I am looking for someone/thing that is able to crawl a site to find links that are not live in the system yet and in no way accessible from the webpage. this is to find early links for products on e-commerce sites
 
I don't think you can "crawl a site" to find links that are not live. Crawling a site means you follow the links on the site that are live from one page to another, hence the term crawling.

The only way I can think of to do this is to find a site that allows for directory listings (no default index.html/php) and find the links there. You see, if nothing links to a page you either have to know the page is there or get it via a directory listing.

However, that being said I don't know how Google finds some of my webpages. I purposely don't link to some webpages but they still end up indexed. Maybe someone else knows a trick I don't. Good luck mate.
 
I don't think you can "crawl a site" to find links that are not live. Crawling a site means you follow the links on the site that are live from one page to another, hence the term crawling.

The only way I can think of to do this is to find a site that allows for directory listings (no default index.html/php) and find the links there. You see, if nothing links to a page you either have to know the page is there or get it via a directory listing.

However, that being said I don't know how Google finds some of my webpages. I purposely don't link to some webpages but they still end up indexed. Maybe someone else knows a trick I don't. Good luck mate.

Bad use of language on my part! Thanks for the clarification!

I know the page will be there and would be looking for the link to it, or piecing a link together. It sounds like directory listing finder would be what I want.
 
The problem you'll have is most websites have a default index.html/php in each directory and that will prevent the directory listing. Also some websites disallow directory listings outright.
 
There are some tools that can crawl for all possibly existing sites / html/php files on a webserver, in general.

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