The Issue Crawler is web network location and visualization software.
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Launch tool Instructions & Scenarios of Use The Issue Crawler is web network location and visualization software. It consists of crawlers, analysis engines and visualisation modules. It is server-side software that crawls specified sites and captures the outlinks from the specified sites. Sites may be crawled and analyzed in three ways: co-link, snowball and inter-actor. Co-link analysis crawls the seed URLs and retains the pages that receive at least two links from the seeds. Snowball analysis crawls sites and retains pages receiving at least one link from the seeds. Inter-actor analysis crawls the seed URLs and retains inter-linking between the seeds. The Issue Crawler visualises the results in cluster and geographical maps. The Issue Crawler also has a set of allied tools: Actor Profiler
Launch tool Instructions & Scenarios of Use The Actor Profiler works in tandem with the Issue Crawler. It calculates the top ten actors on an Issue Crawler map, and profiles each of them. The profile consists of each actor's inlinks and outlinks. The Actor Profiler also shows the Google ranking for the actor for a specified issue, normally the subject matter of the issue network or any other issue the user chooses. Compare Networks Over Time
Launch tool Instructions & Scenarios of Use Compares Issue Crawler networks over time, and displays ranked actor lists. The over time module is best used in tandem with the Issue Crawler scheduler. The results may be plotted to line graphs, in software such as Excel. Extract URLs
Launch tool Instructions & Scenarios of Use Extracts URLs from an Issuecrawler result file (.xml). Useful for retrieving starting points as well as a clean list of the actors in the network. Harvester
Launch tool Instructions & Scenarios of Use Extract URLs from text, source code or search engine results. Produces a clean list of URLs. Issue Discovery Tool
Launch tool Instructions & Scenarios of Use Enter URLs, and discover the most relevant words and phrases contained in them. One also may enter text, or an Issuecrawler result file (.xml). Based on Yahoo Term Extraction. Issue Geographer
Launch tool Instructions & Scenarios of Use Geo-locates the organizations on an Issue Crawler map, using whois information, and visualizes the organizations' registered locations on a geographical map. Issue Network Cloud
Launch tool Instructions & Scenarios of Use Extracts the URLs from an Issue Crawler result, and allows the user to query all the URLs or hosts for key words (through Google). It outputs a tag cloud. Good for the analysis of the content of a network. Ranked Deep Pages from Core Issue Crawler Network
Launch tool Instructions & Scenarios of Use Enter an Issuecrawler XML file and this script will get out all pages from the core network and rank those by pages by inlink count.
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