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