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Product: Phone Fax Spider / Email, Phone and Fax Spider
You can setup different type of extraction with our UNIQUE email, phone and fax harvester:
  1. Extract using Keyword(s)
  2. Extract from WebSite / Web Directories
  3. Extract using List of URLs from File
Using Key words
Program spider websites found by Search Engines Results using keywords specified and collect phone and fax numbers.

Quick Start:

  • Select "Search Engines" as a source in New Extraction Settings Dialog
  • Enter keyword (if you want to enter multiple keywords, enter one keyword per line) 
  • Click OK
  • By default program uses most popular search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc). If you want to change or add more search engines just click the button "Select Search Engine".

Note: The program supports 200+ popular search engines from 39 different countries. It extract all matching URLs from search results, remove duplicate URLs and finally visits those websites and collect email, phone, fax data from there. You can tell the Program how many search engines to use. Just Click "Select Search Engines" button and check/uncheck listing that you do not want to use. 

Setting Spidering Options:

How many deep it spiders in the matching websites depends on "Depth" setting of "External Site" tab. Here you need to tell the program - how many levels to dig down within the website. A setting of "0" will process and look for data in whole website. A setting of "1" will process index or home page with associated files under root dir only.

Using WebSites/Dirs/Groups
Using WebSites: Enter website URL and collect all phone and fax data found in that web site.

Quick Start:

  • Select "WebSite/Dirs/Groups" as a source in New Extraction Settings Dialog
  • Enter website URL in "Initial Address" box
  • Select Spidering Depth or enter the No. of pages to be processed (Optional). A setting of "0" will process and look for data in whole website. A setting of "1" will process index or home page with associated files under root dir only.
  • Click OK

Note: Program will retrieve html/text pages of the website according to the Depth you specified and extract all phone, fax found in those pages. By default, program will stay only the current domain.

If you want the spider to retrieve files of external sites that are linked from starting site specified in "General" tab, then you need to set "Follow External URLs" of "External Site" tab. By default, program will follow external sites only once, that is - 

  • Program will process initial address and all external sites found in initial address. 
  • If you want the spider to follow external sites with unlimited loop, select "Unlimited" in "Spider External URLs Links" combo box, and remember you need to manually stop the extraction, because this way program can spider entire internet.

Using Directories/Groups: Choose Yahoo, Google, Dmoz or other directory and get all phone, fax contact data from there.

Quick Start:

Let's say you want to extract data of all companies listed at http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Freeware/
Follow steps:

  • Select "WebSites/Dirs/Groups" as a source in New Extraction Settings Dialog
  • Enter the URL in "Initial Address" box
  • Select Spidering Depth=0 and check "Stay within Full URL" option.
  • Click OK

Or, lets say you want to extract data of all companies listed at
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Freeware/ + all down level folders like
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Freeware/windows
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Freeware/windows/browser
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Freeware/linux
etc....

Follow steps:

  • Select "WebSites/Dirs/Groups" as a source in New Extraction Settings Dialog
  • Enter the URL in "Initial Address" box
  • Select Spidering Depth=0 and check "Stay within Full URL" option.
  • Go to "External Site" tab and check "Follow External URLs" option.
  • Click OK

Note: Using the above steps program will download http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Freeware/ page and optionally all down level pages and will build a URLs list of companies listed there. Finally extract all data found in those sites.
(Remember: this setting tells the spider to process/follow/visit all URLs found while processing "Initial Address" of "General" tab).

Using List of URLs
Use hundreds/thousands of URLs to extract phone, fax found on those web sites.

Quick Start:

  • Select "URLs from File" as a source in New Extraction Settings Dialog
  • Enter file name that contains all URLs list
  • Select Spidering Depth or enter the No. of pages to be processed (Optional). A setting of "0" will process and look for data in whole website.  A setting of "1" will process index or home page with associated files under root dir only.
  • Click OK

Note: Program will scan the contents of specified file. This file must have URL line-by-line, other format is not supported, Program will accept only lines that starts with http:// text. Also it will not accept URLs that point to image/binary files, because those files will not have any data. After building unique URL list form above file, program will process website one-by-one according to the depth you specify.


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