[CITASA] Needed: Network Software for URL Outlinks

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Ron Anderson
Mon, Jul 18, 2011 9:56 PM

I am doing a social network analysis of major philanthropies and
charities with an online presence. I have a list (file) of about 85
websites (primary URLs) for which I would like to draw a social
network diagram. I have and can use the Netdraw program to draw the
network graph, but I need a 85 x 85 matrix where each cell indicates
whether a website contains an out-link to a website in the set. I'd
like to be able to input a list of URLs and obtain for each URL a
list of all other URLs in the set to which each website contains one
or more outgoing links. If I had to "crawl" each site one at a time,
that would be OK.

I have looked at a lot of web crawlers and social graphing programs
and have not found one yet except from a review of Social Network
Software in Wikipedia, I found URLNET but it requires running Python
and does a lot more than I need.

Does anyone have suggestions for free or inexpensive software that
will do anything like what I am trying to do?

Thanks for any ideas.

Ron

Ron Anderson, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota, 952-473-5910
Websites: http://umn.edu/home/rea  and  http://www.CompassionateSocieties.org

I am doing a social network analysis of major philanthropies and charities with an online presence. I have a list (file) of about 85 websites (primary URLs) for which I would like to draw a social network diagram. I have and can use the Netdraw program to draw the network graph, but I need a 85 x 85 matrix where each cell indicates whether a website contains an out-link to a website in the set. I'd like to be able to input a list of URLs and obtain for each URL a list of all other URLs in the set to which each website contains one or more outgoing links. If I had to "crawl" each site one at a time, that would be OK. I have looked at a lot of web crawlers and social graphing programs and have not found one yet except from a review of Social Network Software in Wikipedia, I found URLNET but it requires running Python and does a lot more than I need. Does anyone have suggestions for free or inexpensive software that will do anything like what I am trying to do? Thanks for any ideas. Ron Ron Anderson, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota, 952-473-5910 Websites: http://umn.edu/home/rea and http://www.CompassionateSocieties.org