Metafy Releases Anthracite Web Mining Desktop Toolkit Version 1.1
AppleScript your Google searches, cool new UI trick, and up to 90% performance improvement in some processes
Boulder, CO (PRWEB) April 1, 2005 -- Metafy LLC today announced the immediate
availability of version 1.1 of their flagship application Anthracite Web Mining
Desktop Toolkit.
"We're grateful to all of our users who have supported
us during the early phase of Anthracite's development, and we hope that with
1.1, our tenth release (!), that we're meeting more of their web mining needs
than ever." extolled Joe Pezzillo, Founder of Metafy and the lead developer of
Anthracite.
Anthracite 1.1 features several major new features and
general improvements and bug fixes.
New in 1.1: Google API Overhaul,
including AppleScript support
Now you can use AppleScript with Anthracite to
automate Google queries and processing of the matching pages in a few simple
steps. Anthracite's Google API engine has been completely overhauled to use the
more contemporary CoreServices SOAP methods, resulting in major improvements to
the stability and speed. Sample documents are included with the distribution
release, including sample AppleScripts and a "Top Keywords for Search Term"
example.
New in 1.1: Drag and Drop Object Connections
A substantial
improvement in the development of processes, now you can simply drag a new
object onto an existing connection line to insert the object into the process
chain. Makes both construction and modification of processes much
easier.
Other improvements include a bug fix to certain online/offline
connection situations, performance enhancements to the text between and strip
processors and new documentation and included sample files.
"With the new
Google API functionality, anyone who is doing regular keyword or search
performance tracking or other Search Engine Optimization (SEO) type work should
really benefit from being able to query Google, load all the results, and parse
out whatever they want to examine, for example, a word or link count, the
keywords, a summary of the site, run some Perl script on the pages, whatever,
it's really the sky's the limit now for search mavens and web power users,"
Pezzillo concluded.
Anthracite is available to download for a free two
week trial for any MacOS X user (10.2.8 or newer), and can be purchased online
for only $99. Users are required to apply for a separate, free license key from
Google to make use of their API functionality. Complete information is available
on the Metafy website.
Metafy LLC was founded in 2003 to provide advanced
information access and distribution tools for the MacOS X platform. Metafy's
flagship product, Anthracite Web Mining Desktop, is a visual spidering and
scraping toolkit that makes it possible for users to build complex automated
information processing systems without scripting. The company's mantra is
"Access Information, Distribute Knowledge," and they can be found on the web at
http://www.metafy.com
Contact: Joe Pezzillo, Metafy
LLC
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