[consulting] Is there a Drupal "Web Crawler"?

[Matt Chapman]

I haven't tried it, but I think Phase2's Tattler was created for this 
purpose:

http://tattlerapp.com/

-Matt



brendan, fresh-off.com wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> I have a client that wants to know if there are any Drupal modules 
> that search the web for content related to him and his company, and 
> can then return the results (full articles or links to the content) to 
> his drupal website.  For example, search the web for instances where 
> "*john doe*" + "*XYZ Company*" both appear in the same piece of content. 
>
>  
>
> Creating the crawler is way beyond my technical ability, so I'm hoping 
> there are some good open source (preferably a Drupal module) options 
> for this functionality.  Wikipedia has a list of open source web 
> crawlers, but since this is a subject I'm unfamiliar with, I'm unsure 
> about whether or not they can be integrated with Drupal - or if any 
> open source web crawlers are even meant to be integrated with a CMS.
>
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> A little bit more info about the use case: He and his company operate 
> in the education field and are constantly being featured in articles 
> (interviews, write-ups, etc) across the web.  In addition - and most 
> importantly -  he and his company produce several papers/articles that 
> are featured in articles and education related blogs across the 
> internet as well.  He is finding that searching manually for this 
> content to be impractical and thus, would love to have it 
> automatically aggregated and sent to his Drupal site.
>
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> Any thoughts, ideas, or pointers in the right direction would be 
> apprecaiated!
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