How to retrieve the crawl log values from Search Service application in SharePoint 2010

In this article we will be seeing how to retrieve the crawl log values for a content source from search service application in SharePoint 2010.

If you go to Central Administration => Application Management => Manage service applications => Search Service Application => Crawling => Crawl Log you could see all the content sources.

C# code:

• 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("Successes: " + cs.SuccessCount.ToString());
              Console.WriteLine("Warnings: " + cs.WarningCount.ToString());
              Console.WriteLine("Errors: "+cs.ErrorCount.ToString());
              Console.WriteLine("TopLevelErrors: " + cs.LevelHighErrorCount.ToString());
              Console.WriteLine("Deletes: " + cs.DeleteCount.ToString());         
              Console.ReadLine();
   
• Build the solution.
• Hit F5.