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Overview

Ever wanted to be notified when that new toilet paper becomes available? or that usb pen is sold at an extra low price? or a new job is posted by that company websites?

WebNavigator helps creating search agents to retrieve dynamic data from the Web.

An awful lot of websites let users search their data using web interface. Usually these contents are not accessible via search engines such as Google.

WebNavigator allows to:
  • define sites to be searched
  • choose the search criteria
  • define the result area inside the page
  • choose conditions to classify the results (no results? no new results? something new)
  • receive notification for update
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At this stage WebNavigator is nothing more than an idea and a demo, we need you!

Latest news

[2005-10-04] WebNavigator 0.1.2 has been released

This is mainly a bug fix release over the 0.1.1 release, with some additions; URL with parameters are now supported, and more search templates were added (there are over twenty templates available).

See changelog file shipped with the package for a complete list of changes.

This latest release can be downloaded from the download page.

[2005-10-04] WebNavigator has been rated JARS TOP 25%

WebNavigator has been rated TOP 25% on JARS.

More info are available on the JARS web site.

[2005-09-02] WebNavigator 0.1.1 has been released

This is mainly a bug fixes release, with few new features added. A delete button was added in the script management page, as well as a RSS summary. Informations are now refreshed every thirty seconds.

You can check out the download page to get the binary or source packages.

[2005-08-19] WebNavigator 0.1.0 has been released

This release includes a lot of improvements over the first one. The layout was improved and support for regular expressions was added; a script scheduler and a mail scheduler were added as well. Retrieved data now includes table element data, row element data and regex element data. RSS feeds are also availbale.

Some bugs were fixed, and other minor improvements were performed. Please take a look at the Changelog file included with the package for full details.

If you like to give it a try, please see the download page.

[2005-08-02] WebNavigator 0.0.1 has been released

We are happy to announce that the first release of WebNavigator is available for download. This first release includes script management and execution, proxy support, hsqld persistence; it also supports a local installation.

If you like to give it a try, please see the download page.