System and method for gathering website contents

Abstract

The invention provides a system of aggregating Website contents and a method thereof. The method comprises: (10) web page contents are received and packaged to an information source according to the interaction of users, and a nested table data model is established and Mashup script is generated, wherein, the nested table data model comprises atom attributes and examples thereof and / or tuple attributes and examples thereof; (20) the Mashup script is executed to process or aggregate the information source, and an information view graph is generated. With the system and the method adopted, mass users without any programming knowledge can extract out HTML web pages, RSS contents and the like on the Website without programming any program code and structure Mashup application which processes or aggregates the website contents.

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Technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the field of World Wide Web, and more specifically, to a system and method for aggregating the contents of a Web site. Background technique [0002] Web-based content aggregation applications are gradually emerging on the Internet. They are usually called Web aggregation applications (Mashups). This type of application is created by integrating the functions and / or data of a Web site to form an integrated application. For example, Housingmaps.com integrates apartment rental and purchase data on Craigslist.org with Google’s map rendering service; Diggdot.us integrates technology-related content on Digg.com, Slashdot.org, and Del.icio.us Gather together. Users only need to access the Mashup application to get an aggregated view of the latest content of the website, avoiding the repetitive work that users often need to visit one or more websites and perform content aggregation. [0003] Generally speaking, such Mashup applicati...

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Problems solved by technology

For ordinary users, this visual data flow modeling method is still an unfamiliar and complex interaction method, such as the association operation of input and output, which is usually difficult for ordinary users to understand; on the other hand, in these tools, the information aggregated by the content Sources are often limited to the limited "information sources" provided by the system. To aggregate HTML webpage content that does not yet exist in the system, users need to have a certain knowledge of regular expressions, which is difficult for ordinary users to understand. For example, in Yahoo ! In Pipe, for web information sources in HTML format, regular expressions need to be written by the user to obtain the content on the web page and then aggregated with other content

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