Sam Spade, Black Widow, and Teleport Pro

Sam Spade,
Black Widow, and Teleport Pro

The wget
retriever and grep are powerful tools for
automated source sifting. At times, we also use GUI-driven tools such as Sam
Spade, Black Widow, and Teleport Pro for crawling and analyzing Web sites. The
main drawback of wget is that it isn't
multithreaded. Web crawlers such as Black Widow from SoftByteLabs (style='color:#003399'>http://www.softbytelabs.com)
and Teleport Pro by Tennyson Maxwell (http://www.tenmax.comlang=EN-GB>) are excellent multithreaded crawler programs that run on Windows. However,
neither have the capability to search mirrored HTML code. For that, we use the
Windows' findstr utility.

Sam Spade v1.14 from Blighty Design, Inc. (style='color:#003399'>http://www.samspade.org)
features a Web crawler tool along with options to search for patterns and elements
such as e-mail addresses within downloaded HTML code. lang=EN-GB style='color:#003399'>Figure 7-4 shows
Sam Spade's Web crawler options.

lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial'>Figure 7-4. Sam Spade Web
crawler options

lang=EN-GB style='color:#003399'>Figure 7-5 shows
the output produced by Sam Spade: hyperlinks, e-mail addresses, and hidden
fields extracted from http://www.acme-art.com.

lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial'>Figure 7-5. Sam Spade run
against www.acme-art.com