Check out PHPdig; http://www.phpdig.net/ Warren > -----Original Message----- > From: Jamie Alessio [mailto:Jamie.Alessio@xxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 9:22 AM > To: John Cage > Cc: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Crawlers (was parsing large files - PHP or Perl) > > > > Is there anyone on this list who has written fast and decent > > crawlers in PHP who would be willing to share their experiences? > > > My first inclination would be to use an existing crawler to grab the > pages and store all the files locally (even if only temporarily). Then, > you can use PHP to do whatever type of processing you want on those > files and can even have PHP crawl deeper based on links in those files > if necessary. I'd have a hard time coming up with a reason to think I > would implement a better web crawler on my own than is already available > from other projects that focus on that. What about existing search > systems like: > > Nutch - http://www.nutch.org > mnoGoSearch - http://mnogosearch.org/ > htdig - http://www.htdig.org/ > or maybe even a "wget -r" - http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html > (I'm sure I missed a bunch of great options) > > Just an idea - I'd also like to hear if someone has written nice > crawling code in PHP. > > - Jamie > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
