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SPINdex is a pair of Perl scripts that allows ones' website to be easily searchable, with minimal overhead and extra programming. SPINdex traverses the directories specified as "search directories", and recursively runs through each of the subdirectories (unless it is flagged as an excluded directory) and checks each file with a suitable extension for the string specified with a case-insensitive regular expression. If the expression matches, the name and URL are recorded.

This script lets visitors at your site search the web by selecting from a list of search engines. It also has the option to log what people are searching for on each site. You will need the HTML code containing the form and engine.cgi. The urls and titles for each engine are hidden in the SELECT tag of the form. This way you can easily add more in the future.

This is a proof-of-concept of a tool to automate web browsing / data collection. It works like AWK except that instead of working on files and lines it works on HTML pages and hyperlinks. It is meant to be run as a command line script and includes base_url - the URL the script was initially invoked on, base_path - root of saved data tree, url - current URL being processed, linked_from - parent of current URL, and content - the actual data corresponding to the current URL.

I-Spy is a Perl script which identifies new files on various remote FTP and Web sites. It grabs and compares contents of FTP directories and web pages. It will then compile a report and either send it via e-mail or save it as a web page. You may also request both deliveries of the report. For e-mail reports, you may request plain text or HTML. I-Spy logs its activity as it chugs along. You may specify the log directory, or I-Spy will try to find one automatically. For web page reports, I-Spy will attempt to store the log in such a place where it may be referenced by the report and served by the web server.

Harvest-NG is a collection of Perl modules and scripts which provide a powerful web crawling and summarizing agent. The code is aimed at providing an open source, standards compliant, tool for fetching content from a wide variety of information sources, summarising it into a set of resource descriptions, and storing these in an easily accessible database from which search services can be built and statistical information compiled.

HPFind is a small Perl script that allows you to find files in users' directories and displays them in a table on an html page. This version looks for index.htm and index.html in ~/public_html, but can be set to search for any file. It also allows you to configure the output text and background, and exclude a given list of users.

This is a Web site indexer and search engine CGI script written in Perl. It consists of a batch file wrapper for the file system traverser and indexer cgi script for your web site. It also includes a little html example and a script to dump the contents of the db file to screen.

This is an internal search script designed for Portuguese sites. It supports and/or, case sensitive, configurable number of results to display per page. You can also choose the types of archives to be searched, and customize the result page with your choice of color, text, links, etc.

This program takes the form input of a Bible reference, interprets the Bible Book name, chapter number and verse and sends the user to that book, chapter and verse on the web site.

RiSearch is a simple but powerful search engine program for your site. This script is not meant to replace such powerful search systems like ht://Dig and Glimpse, but intended for small and medium sites with 1000 files and total volume about 10-20Mb. It should be quite enough for most amateur sites. It features: RiSearch does not use any libraries or database systems, just pure Perl., Contrary to the big search systems, like ht://Dig or Glimpse, source code of RiSearch takes about 10 kilobytes, Script is able to work with different languages, Simple and convenient query language, and RiSearch uses platform independent binary files which can be used on any system.

@Search allows you to search up to 99 popular search engines. Alo features: Display random Ad banner when user hit search button, Save all keywords to database, Count how many times people use @Search, and Can Search MP3 Music, Free Download Software, etc.

pssSearch is a web-based search tool for your web server. pssSearch enables your web-site visitors to find the information they seek on your web-site by entering words or phrases. pssSearch logs the user search request providing information valuable to your business (IP of requester, time, search words/phrases). The pssSearch interface is fully customizable.

Wordindex is a full text indexing suite developed using perl as the backend and PHP as the web based search utility. Any language can be used to search as long as it has access to MySQL databases. Wordindex is capable of indexing huge amounts of data, one production system has indexed over 14GB of textual, PDF, and compressed text files. Searches on that system are still less than a second on a modest server. Wordindex is clusterable, the indexing process which can take a very long time to complete on a huge dataset (meaning ~10G+) can be run over a couple nodes to spread out the load.

A metasearch engine script with many features such as targeted search and banner results, search statistics, related searches, family filter, highlighted keywords, sorting options, search within results, framed redirection, popular searches, cached searches and a total of 14 engines. Along with many user-friendly admin functions, this script is very easy to setup and customize.

This is a metasearch script for searching the top book sites on the net. Features include a URL and banner targeter, statistics, family filter, highlighted keywords, sorting options and much more. You can also make money with this script by entering in your own affiliate ids. An image of each book cover is included in the results.

Kiss Site Search Engine is an easy to install search engine program designed for use on small or medium-sized sites. Includes two scripts to scan the directory and then parse the HTML files for the keywords entered by the user.

PSLightningSearch is a powerful full-text search engine for your website. It is feature rich with options and settings on both the admin side and user side. Features include: Keyword tracking, directories / documents to include / exclude from searchs, 1 minute setup, and extensive documentation.

PhraseFinder is a multi-purpose mini-search engine that searches a directory of your choice for specific keywords. Phrase Finder can also help you find link exchanges. For a given list of urls, it will sort out those pages with the keywords you have specified. Phrase Finder can also find pages that require changes. Have you ever decided that sponsor X needs to be replaced, and wondered how you possibly will find them all? With Phrase Finder you will find those pages much faster than looking at every site for every advertisement.

Fastget is the system to organize a large set of information with care and accuracy without expending enormous time and resources. FASTGET is the system to browse a large amount of information in a systematic and direct manner.

This search script allows you to index your site (speed the search 10 fold) or perform a live search. Ignore, words, docs, folders. Records search terms. Does not skip your meta tags. Does not display our copyright on Public Pages! Comes with Admin Control Panel, extensive documentation and advanced setup. Customize results and no results pages.