On 12/1/05 8:23 PM, "Scott Reynen" <scott at randomchaos.com> wrote: > I thought I'd go ahead and play around with a microformat-based > alternative to Google Base. So far, I have a basic spider that I set > loose from microformats.org to slowly wander the web. When it finds > any known microformat-associated class names, it records the data > which can then be searched here: >> http://www.randomchaos.com/microformats/base/ >> Or via URL like so: >> http://www.randomchaos.com/microformats/base/?key=fn&value=Tantek Uh, WOW. This is VERY cool. > It's currently only looking for hcard and hcalendar class names. Consider adding hReview as well! > The spider can be invoked on a site manually like so: >> http://www.randomchaos.com/microformats/base/spider/?url=http:// > domain.com/path/to/microformat/ >> All open source [1][2][3][4] if anyone wants to play with it. It's > pretty basic right now, but I'd be interested in any feedback you all > have. Well done Scott. Definitely add it to the "Implementations" sections on the specs for hCard and hCalendar and for sure on the implementations page http://microformats.org/wiki/implementations > [1] http://www.randomchaos.com/source/?source=http%3A%2F% > 2Fwww.randomchaos.com%2Fmicroformats%2Fbase%2Fspider/index.php > [2] http://www.randomchaos.com/source/?source=http%3A%2F% > 2Fwww.randomchaos.com%2Fmicroformats%2Fbase%2Findex.php > [3] http://www.randomchaos.com/source/?source=http%3A%2F% > 2Fwww.randomchaos.com%2Fclass/mf_base_data.class.php > [4] http://www.randomchaos.com/source/?source=http%3A%2F% > 2Fwww.randomchaos.com%2Fclass/mf_base_source.class.php Definitely include those links too. Thanks, Tantek