Metafy Announces Anthracite Web Mining Desktop Toolkit for MacOS X

New Web Mining Software for MacOS X Helps Average Users Quickly Solve Business Problems with Internet Data

Boulder, CO (PRWEB) May 24, 2004 -- Metafy LLC (http://www.metafy.com) this week announces the availability of its first commercial product, Anthracite Web Mining Desktop.

Anthracite solves the recurring problem faced by users who need to be able to make use of valuable information available on the Internet but can't take the time or spend the money to have custom software developed. Anthracite enables Rapid Construction of Internet Data Processing Systems that extract data from the oceans of information on the Internet and process it for use in business solutions.

In one example on the Company's website, a Financial Research Analyst is able to track SEC Filings, and in a few simple steps extract information from a particular type of form, then format a report showing the blocks of text where companies disclose risks.

Other examples show summarizing documents including state legislation and RSS feeds, extracting phone numbers for politicians from a list on a webpage, and collecting e-mail addresses and URLs from incoming mail. The Company's private demonstrations show working with larger volumes of data in SQL databases, a customer order email processing system, and extracting and summarizing quantities of web pages retrieved from the Google API.

The software is designed for average users with an easy to understand visual interface in which the user connects Sources to Processors to Outputs. Users quickly build their own useful workflow from a collection of objects that do the underlying work, making it possible to handle data in ways that previously would have required expensive and time consuming custom software development.

The collection contains source types for accessing data from URLs, UNIX Commands, the Google API, MySQL Queries, AppleScripts and more. A dozen different processor types can then manipulate the raw sources, including finding all occurrences of Text Near a term, extracting cells from HTML Tables, applying Regular Expressions, performing any UNIX Command that uses stdin/stdout, cleaning text, and so on. Data from various sources can be combined in Reports that convert repeating elements into formatted output, then exported to HTML, CSV, XML/RDF Files, MySQL databases, or attached AppleScripts.

Anthracite costs $99.00 and can be downloaded for a free fully-functional two-week trial.

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