How to check the Crawl Status of a Content Source

As you know I’m playing working with SharePoint/FAST Search a lot. I have a lot of tasks when I have to sit on the button F5 while crawling and check the status: is it started? is it still crawling? is it finished yet?…

I have to hit F5 in every minute. I’m too lazy, so decided to write a PowerShell script that does nothing but checks the crawl status of a Content Source and writes it to the console to me. And I can work on my second screen while it’s working and working and working – without touching F5.

The script is pretty easy:

$SSA = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication -Identity “Search Service Application” $ContentSource = $SSA | Get-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource -Identity “My Content Source”

do {     Write-Host $ContentSource.CrawlState (Get-Date).ToString() “-” $ContentSource.SuccessCount “/” $ContentSource.WarningCount “/” $ContentSource.ErrorCount     Start-Sleep 5 } while (1)

Yes, it works fine for FAST (FS4SP) Content Sources too.