Last night was the busiest ever Cambridge Search Meetup, with two excellent talks and a lot of discussion and networking. First was Harry Waye of Arachnys, who provide access to data on emerging markets that no-one else has using a variety of custom crawling technology and heavy use of tools such Google Translate. If you want to trawl the Greek corporate registry or find out financial news...Continue reading
I spent yesterday at Search Solutions 2010, hosted by the British Computer Society. They'd been kind enough to ask me to speak (Update: my slides are available here, the rest are available at the event website above), but there were plenty of other people to listen to as well. There's a great Continue reading
We've recently uploaded a new crawler framework to the Flax code repository. This is designed for use from Python to build a web crawler for your project. It's multithreaded and simple to use, here's a minimal example:
import crawler
crawler.dump = MyContentDumperImplementati...Continue reading
