Tool for searching a page for a keyword

[kriskd]

I'm wondering if any of you know of a tool that would do something for me.  I'm thinking Google might have something.

Anyway, look at this page:

http://www.ci.madison.wi.us/police/eastnews/Eastnews.html

I want something that will visit all those date links, do a search for some keywords (in my case it will be street names in my neighborhood) and then somehow inform me of that bit of text so I can post that info on my website.  It would have to do that as new reports were posted.

If anyone has any ideas of how to automate this, I'd appreciate it.  I really have no interest in manually picking through all those reports and looking for the stuff I want.

[Lisa]

the only way i can think of at the top of my head is to do a search with google/yahoo just on that site.
But thats not automated.
Your other option is RSS, which they don't appear to support.

HMMM

I reckon there must be something automated out there, i'll have a dig around after dinner

[Admiral-SirJohn]

(I can't believe I'm suggesting this...)

What you're looking for is known as a data miner, and is commonly used by spammers.

I don't know of any offhand, but I'm sure if you feed the term into a search engine or two, you'll find something that will work.

[Lisa]

not found anything yet

[Admiral-SirJohn]

Dunno if any of these can be automated, but something here might work...

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Web_Authoring/Search_Authoring_Tools/

[Lisa]

http://www.filebuzz.com/files/automatic_search/1.html

the first one looks a possibility.. not sure if you can set it to search on it's own at set times though

[kriskd]

Thank you both ASJ and Lisa for doing a little research for me. 

http://www.filebuzz.com/files/automatic_search/1.html

the first one looks a possibility.. not sure if you can set it to search on it's own at set times though

Some excellent possibilities here!  I'm not really in need of something to search on it's own, but rather something that will get me through the archives of months on this site and then I will return monthly to do the search on the new report.

I'll have to try some of these out!

[Lisa]

Welcome.

[kriskd]

Guess what?  I figured this out and here are my results:

http://www.sprechereast.com/view/police-excerpts

Thanks to my PHP class, I was able to write a little script that visits each of these pages and searches for the street in question and then gives back a line of text and the URL that text was on.  I still had to re-visit the page to make sure I got all the appropriate text, but it still worked pretty slick and I was able to put what I've learned in class to use in the "real world"!