Re: web archiving

Hi Phialip, et al,

well, wget is nice, and htdig/mngosearch both seem great; but I want to
be able to enter extra data about the web pages (author names, comments,
subject/key word entries...)so that the database starts to resemble a
bibliographic database.  That is, I want other people to be able to take
advantage of work that I and other data-entry slaves do when we enter
the url's.

does htat seem silly?

matt

On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 18:21, Philip Hallstrom wrote:
> Not to discourage you from using postgresql or writing it yourself, but
> you might want to take a look at wget (for downloading the web pages) and
> mngosearch or htdig for searching them.
>
> mngosearch supports postgresql and has a PHP interface so you can have fun
> with that...
>
> On 10 Jul 2002, Matt Price wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I've just moved up from non-free os's to debian linux, and installed
> > postgresql, with the hope of getting started on some projects I've been
> > thinking about.  Several of these projects involve web archives.  The
> > idea is, a url is entered with a bunch of bibliographic-type data in
> > other fields (keywords, author, date, etc).  The html (and hopefully,
> > accompanying images/css's/etc) are then grabbed using curl, and archived
> > in a postgresql database.  A web or other gui interface then provides
> > fully-searchable access to the archive for later use.
> >
> > So my question:  does anyone know of a similar tool which already
> > exists?  I'm a complete novice at database programming (and at php, too,
> > which is what I figured I'd use as the scripting language, though I'd
> > consider learning perl or java if folks think that's a much better
> > idea), and I'd rather work with some pre-existing code than start from
> > the ground up.  Any suggestings?  Is this the right list to be asking
> > this quesiton on?
> >
> > Thanks loads,
> > Matt
> >
> >
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