anthracite spotlight importer for web mining data



Search Your Web Mining Results From the MacOS X Tiger Desktop!

Anthracite is Metafy's power toolbox for building automatable web mining spidering and scraping systems easily and visually without scripting. Many Anthracite users export their results to databases or text files, but even if you don't, now, with MacOS X Tiger, you will be able to access the results of your Anthracite processes directly from the desktop using Spotlight.

First, you'll need to be running Tiger, of course, and then you'll need to download and install the new Anthracite Spotlight Importer.

(see below for installation instructions)
The Anthracite Spotlight Importer for MacOS X Tiger enables several great new capabilities that are sure to make your web mining, spidering and scraping work even more productive. If you've collected a lot of data, or built extensive processes with many URLs, and now you want to find a result or process you've worked on, you can do it directly from the Finder!


Search Your Results from the Desktop:

Searching within your stored web mining results with Spotlight is so easy, you have to see it to believe it! Here's a brief screen movie showing the ability to search your results in action:


Movie One (3.4MB)


Searching Object Titles and Source URLs:

But it's not just your results that you can search! The names of the objects you create in your Anthracite documents, as well as the URLs used in your URL List Source Objects are also searchable, as shown in this brief screen capture clip:


Movie Two (2.3MB)



Installing the Anthracite Spotlight Importer

The Spotlight importer is distributed independently as a standard package installer. Simply run the package installer and enter your administrator authorization to make the importer available to everyone on your system.

Download the Anthracite Spotlight Importer
(installer package approx. 550KB)

MacOS X UNIX users may wish to note that it can also install it in one of several System locations, the Apple-recommended location is

/Library/Spotlight

but you can also put it in your personal

~/Library/Spotlight

If you are manually installing the importer, be sure to run

% /usr/bin/mdimport -r PATH_TO_IMPORTER

where you replace PATH_TO_IMPORTER with the full path to the importer in the location where you installed it. This will cause the Spotlight engine to reindex your documents to make for better search performance.

 

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