JimWorld Forums: Pet Spider - where can I get one?



Posted By: SportsGuy (Moderator)
Posted On: 04/28/2008 10:00 am

So, say a person's looking for code to build a crawler.

Nothing fancy, just a basic crawler that you can:

1 - feed a select list of links into to tell it to start crawling from (think the main page of different sites)
2 - tell the spider to watch for select keywords (give it a list to look for)
3 - index only those with the keyword/phrase mentioned
4 - spec whether the mention happens in the metas, the body, the domain, the URL, etc.

Assume the desire is for a crawler that will live on a server and can be given it's own IP if absolutely needed - MySQL database friendly and, thus, likely php-based, or at least Linux box friendly.

...and it's care-taker is not a programmer, so this pet spider will need to come with instructions. wink


Posted By: Quadrille (Insider)
Posted On: 04/28/2008 11:27 am

I really don't know ... but there must be an open source answer?


Posted By: formerskeptic ()
Posted On: 04/28/2008 10:26 pm

Pretty tall order you got there smile Try Risearch.
The script has most if not all the features you're looking for wink


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