[uf-discuss] Microformat Base

[Dr. Ernie Prabhakar]

> 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.

Kudos, Scott!   The best revenge is a happy life, but second-best (or  
perhaps the first step to that) is working code. :-)

-- Ernie P.

On Dec 1, 2005, at 8:42 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote:

> 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
>
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