In this article we will be seeing how to check the crawl status values for
content sources in SharePoint 2010.
If you go to Central Administration => Application Management => Manage
service applications => Search Service Application => Crawling => Content
Sources you could see all the content sources.
To check the crawl status values for a content source
- Open Visual Studio 2010.
- Go to File => New => Project.
- Select Console Application from the
installed templates.
- Enter the Name and click Ok.
- Add the following references.
o Microsoft.SharePoint.dll
o Microsoft.Office.Server.dll
o Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.dll
- Add the following namespaces.
o using Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration;
o using Microsoft.Office.Server;
o using Microsoft.SharePoint;
- Replace the code with the following.
// search service application name
string ssaName =
"Search Service Application";
SearchContext context =
SearchContext.GetContext(ssaName);
Content
ssaContent = new
Content(context);
ContentSourceCollection
ssaContentSources = ssaContent.ContentSources;
ContentSource cs =
ssaContentSources["Local SharePoint Sites"];
Console.WriteLine(cs.CrawlCompleted.ToString());
Console.WriteLine(cs.CrawlStarted.ToString());
Console.WriteLine(cs.CrawlStatus);
Console.WriteLine(cs.CrawlPriority);
- Build the solution.
- Hit F5.