Hello, i need a serverside tool witch can crawl periodicaly (one or two times a day) ads from a number of sites. The site adresses must be configurable and same the information crawled witch will be stored into database must be configurable (fields crawled, description, image, html parsing options, etc). The process has to be like this: information comes "clean" from the source crawled, than to be stored into a database and then listed on our site depending the options we set. If all this can be done as an extension for a joomla site, it`s perfect. :)
Hi Donkontra, I am a programmer with a good experience in Joomla! plugins (Im fluent in a big number of programming language/frameworks). My first concern is providing the best service possible. My last project here on freelancer was just a modify to the (commercial) jReviews plugin for Joomla! I think what you want to achieve is for sure manageable as a plugin, you will gain modularity and ease of use and management.
In a private message I've just sent to you I will provide some other insights and suggestion. Looking forward to help you bring this product to reality!