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(in other words, page under construction)
What's a crawler?
A Web crawler is a computer program that browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner or in an orderly fashion. Other terms for Web crawlers are ants, automatic indexers, bots, Web spiders, Web robots, or—especially in the FOAF community—Web scutters.
In the outsourced model, we develop and run the crawls, then extract the data and present it to you as a deliverable in a predescussed format.
Pros: No infrastructure costs required on your end, and no crawl or programming expertise required. You need only MS Excel to read csv/tsv files or a MySQL database to read the data - local or remote. Lower costs as you only for the deliverable.
Cons: No access to source-code.
In the consulting model, we function as a consultant to your company and you own the intellectual property we create in the form of the crawler. We develop the crawler and install it on your own servers.
Pros: You own the source code and have total control over the crawls.
Cons: More costly. Some technical and/or programming expertise may be required to run crawls.
Don't hesitate to send us a message and discuss your needs.