HipCrime is pleased to announce that a shareware version of
its ActiveAgent web-spider is now available for downloading
via anonymous FTP.
ActiveAgent, webcrawler and wanderer, is often, but erroneously,
refered to as a "robot". Written in Java, it is one of an entirely
new breed of user's agents. Executing on the visitor's system, it
allows inspection of literally thousands of homepages, taking action
based upon the content that was observed.
Given a starting URL (an HTTP address), it will search that site for
any hyperlinks, and follow them, from there to anywhere. Along the
way, it'll find Email addresses embedded within HTML pages. In effect,
ActiveAgent crawls from site-to-site, locating and pushing people's
"mail-ME" buttons.
ActiveAgent does NOT skim newsgroups, databases, and/or subscriber
lists. It locates addresses on published, accessible WWWeb-pages,
and sends only a single message to each recipient. ActiveAgent will
contact those people who have invited this comment by displaying their
Email coordinates in a "please-mail-to-me" context (i.e. a MAILTO
button on a public page).
Unix platforms will like the taste of this compressed TAR:
ftp://hipcrime.com/public-ReadOnly/ActiveAgent.tar.Z
Systems running Windows will prefer this ZIP-flavored archive:
ftp://hipcrime.com/public-ReadOnly/ActiveAgent.zip
If you're running Windows-95, and can't find the beta release
of MS Internet Explorer version 3, use this URL:
ftp://hipcrime.com/public-ReadOnly/msie30_b2.exe
Once you've downloaded and unpacked one of the archives, you
should read the ActiveAgent.info file for information on its
installation and use.
If you have questions, problems, comments, or whatever,
please don't hesitate to contact me.
... Robert
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HIPCRIME.COM is a World Wide Web art project,
with several separate exhibits housed under a single domain:
Lots of Love - fractal images, taken to a hand-made extreme
Haight Street - we need to have bad neighborhoods somewhere
Stark Raving Math - adventures in numerological psychedelia
Neural Net Lotto - AI? or, financial planning? You decide!
Money Mutilation - experimental talismanic banknote designs
Anarchist Info - collected papers to help the home hobbyist
Active Agent - our publicity center & crawling Email engine
To visit, please point your HTML browser at HTTP://HIPCRIME.COM
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