webcrawler (bot) in javascript?

[bdy120602]

I have a few programs that search an entire site for a keyword, and I
run
them from my machine: "Light Web Searcher" and "Teleport Pro" are
just
a few. My objective is to create a bare-bones software application
identical to the functions available in the aforementioned pieces of
software.

What language would I be able to accomplish that with?
Thanks,
Danny

[Evertjan.]

wrote on 20 feb 2008 in comp.lang.javascript:

I have a few programs that search an entire site for a keyword, and I
run
them from my machine: "Light Web Searcher" and "Teleport Pro" are
just
a few. My objective is to create a bare-bones software application
identical to the functions available in the aforementioned pieces of
software.

What language would I be able to accomplish that with?

The Q is mainly off topic,
you can only ask if it can be done using Javascript.

Answer: Yes.

--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

[bdy120602]

On Feb 20, 2:18*pm, "Evertjan." <[e-mail]:

*wrote on 20 feb 2008 in comp.lang.javascript:

I have a few programs that search an entire site for a keyword, and I
run
them from my machine: "Light Web Searcher" and "Teleport Pro" are
just
a few. My objective is to create a bare-bones software application
identical to the functions available in the aforementioned pieces of
software.

What language would I be able to accomplish that with?

The Q is mainly off topic,
you can only ask if it can be done using Javascript.

Answer: Yes.

--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

Great. Can you get me started on writing a web crawler (bot) in
Javascript. What tools do I need?

[Nick Fletcher]

On Feb 28, 10:57 am, [e-mail] wrote:

On Feb 20, 2:18 pm, "Evertjan." <[e-mail]:

wrote on 20 feb 2008 in comp.lang.javascript:

I have a few programs that search an entire site for a keyword, and I
run
them from my machine: "Light Web Searcher" and "Teleport Pro" are
just
a few. My objective is to create a bare-bones software application
identical to the functions available in the aforementioned pieces of
software.

What language would I be able to accomplish that with?

The Q is mainly off topic,
you can only ask if it can be done using Javascript.

Answer: Yes.

--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

Great.

The answer may be yes, but JavaScript would still be a poor choice. A
web crawler requires a lot of bandwidth and lots of text parsing. A
server running Java or C++ would do far better than your web browser
running JavaScript.

Can you get me started on writing a web crawler (bot) in
Javascript. What tools do I need?

Your brain and a text editor. :)