AppleScript
*buy now! | download & try itAnthracite makes use of AppleScript in a variety of ways, allowing you to run an AppleScript within Anthracite to provide the source data or export your data, and also to write scripts that can set Anthracite parameters and launch and run web scraping processes.
These capabilities make it possible for you to automate web mining with Anthracite and integrate with workflow involving other applications.
AppleScript the Google API provides a sample script showing how to automate a top keyword report for a search term using the Google API.
The iCal Scheduling example shows how to automate your Anthracite processes to run at specific, repeatable times using the built in iCal calendar application.
RSS
*buy now! | download & try itRSS Anthracite loves RSS! Be it parsing websites and spitting out feeds, or picking apart XML tags and stuffing them in databases, Anthracite just loves to scrape and process those syndicated feeds.
Check out the "Easiest RSS Generator" example to see how easy it is to create an RSS feed from any website using Anthracite's web mining toolkit. There is also an example showing you how to use Anthracite to generate an RSS feed of system administration data about a machine and export it to your favorite newsreader, or ours, Stickler! scrolling headline ticker.
Google API
*buy now! | download & try itGoogle API The Google API Source Object makes it possible to perform automated queries against the world's most popular search engine.
Using your own API key (available free from Google), perform up to 1,000 queries per day for a total of 10,000 URLs. In addition to breaking the "10 results per page" limit, use the web mining power of Anthracite to load each of the pages returned from each search and then perform analysis or processing on those results, such as build a top keyword report for a search term. With AppleScript, you can also automate the search query so that you can have automated reports gene rated for different search terms every morning.
UNIX
*buy now! | download & try itAnthracite is built on the UNIX power of MacOS X.
Anthracite makes use of the UNIX power of MacOS X in its Source and Processor Objects. With the UNIX Source Object, you can run a command via Processor Object command line operation, cron PERL conditional Even the Small Business Database example uses grep to filter lines [unix command window]!
Perl conditional output sample
Unix Command Source Objects and Processors
Create a small business database with Unix commands and Anthracite
UNIX Command object that uses the command-line program "curl" CRON
