Should have posted this sooner. But here it is. The "LocFinder" project has been renamed and moved to its new home - RentHunt - http://www.renthunt.ca

Feel free to check it out! Hopefully people find it

Labels: launch, LocFinder, new, renthunt, renthunt.ca

In about 2 days :) - the first version of LocFinder is ready

I am planning on some feature additions and more sites to crawl later..currently the information contained comes from crawling only rentershotline.ca. I am thinking of having the bot crawl it every night...so the information would get updated in 24 hour periods.

The rental information is represented graphically, but if you want futher details - it links back to rentershotline.ca

Labels: bot, crawling, LocFinder, programming, project, spider, V1, Version 1, web

The busy school term is almost over. I just have 1 more exam to go..I figured I can loosen up a bit now. I have two ideas that I really want to implement in the next short little while. I'll call these projects LocFinder and LuckFinder:

• Loc Finder - We (a couple of us) are looking for rental places..there are many sites out there with a lot of information...found them kinda hard to use...I figured, I'd create a web crawler that crawls these sites and presents the information in a very friendly form.
  
  I thought this was done well by Subletr. Unfortunately...it doesn't seem to work anymore :(
  
  Well, this has given the opportunity to fill that gap. Here I go.
  
• Luck Finder - Can't explain this now...I want to implement it first :)

Hope to have this done soon! :)

Labels: crawling, LocFinder, LuckFinder, programming, project, spider, web