Nowadays, it’s hard to imagine our life without search systems. “If you don’t know something, google it!” – is one of the most popular maxims in our life. But how many people use Google in an optimal way? A lot of developers use google commands to get needed answers as fast as it possible.
Even this is not enough today! Large and small companies need terabytes of data to make their business profitable. It’s necessary to automate the search process and make it reliable to satisfy the user with fresh news, updates or posts. In today’s article we will consider a very helpful tool – Real-Time Crawler (RTC) for the collection of fresh data. Let’s start!
Recently I came across an interesting new tool from TheWebMiner called Filter. The Filter is an attempt by TheWebMiner to sort (categorize) indexed websites and deliver them to users as a content filtering service.
Today I got a question from one of my readers asking if there is a good out-of-the-box solution for crawling multiple websites for contact information.
Inspyder Power Search is a crawling and scraping application which is more for straightforward scraping, using both XPath and Regex. The program has a simple, nice interface making it easy to learn and employ it.
Inspyder is designed for multiple purposes:
80legs offers a crawling service that allows users to (1) easily compose crawl jobs and (2) cloud run their crawl jobs over the distributed computer network.
The modern web requires you to spend huge amount of processing power to mine it for information. How could a start-up or a small business do comprehensive data crawling without having to build the giant server farms used by major search engines?