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

[Ian Ward]

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On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:09 PM, brendan, fresh-off.com <hello at fresh-off.com
> wrote:

>  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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> Any thoughts, ideas, or pointers in the right direction would be
> apprecaiated!
>
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