Attn Tracey: First, I'm very sorry, I thought after the last e-mail that we'd resolved your questions so the previous phone calls were also resolved, and clearly I was wrong, so let me start by apologizing for that.
As to the other details, per that e-mail discussion, Anthracite is a toolkit, so it's definitely possible to build processes to extract information from websites, but most customized processes are built up from building blocks as opposed to being ready-to-run solutions. There are a number of examples (approaching 100) of these building blocks on the distribution disk image (look in Goodies > Samples), including some showing how to apply regular expressions to webpages to look for particularly formatted data, and even a ready to run solution showing how to load pages of SEC filings and convert public contact information into vCard format for importing into CRM software, which sounds like it is similar to your requirements.
We have customer testimonials on our website at:
Anthracite customer testimonials
including several from Version Tracker comments here.
We have some professional users in the Apple Consultants Network community, it might be possible to connect you with one of them to build a custom solution for you.
Thank you again for considering Anthracite.
Joe
Joe Pezzillo
Metafy LLC
Anthracite Web Mining Desktop Toolkit
Web mining & spidering.
Version: 1.7.4
Metafy LLC Follow-up - cuttance
I have a series of data extractions that I want built by a consultant — can you put me in touch with a couple of consultants who might be able to do this with Anthracite for me.Peter Cuttance
cuttance@radii.org
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