[uf-discuss] Microformat Base

Scott Reynen scott at randomchaos.com
Thu Dec 1 20:23:50 PST 2005


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

It's currently only looking for hcard and hcalendar class names. 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.

Peace,
Scott

[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


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