Search another site

[idesdema]

Hello, I am looking for a way to search another site for a specific phrase.

People are linking to my site and I have to ask them for the page where they linked and go validate that it's there. I'd like to automate this process.

Any ideas?

[Newsgroup_User]

use <cfhttp> and then look for the phrase (and probably a url as well)
in the returned filecontent.

Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com/

[idesdema]

Ok I'll give that a try. Thanks Azadi.

[tclaremont]

Some of us solved this dilemma for another user at some point in the last six months. Search the forums and I am sure you will uncover it. CFHTTP is at the root of the solution, though.

[idesdema]

Will do. I've never used the cfhttp tag so I'm going to have to do some homework before I can post again.

My first thought is "will I be able to use this without a login for the other ip" but I'm sure I will find out soon.

[tclaremont]

Needing a login is dependent on the other site. With CFHTTP, you are retrieving whatever content is returned to the browser. The other web site "sees" this visit as just another visitor on the web. If the page you are visiting is unprotected, you wont need a login.

Once you use CFHTTP, the contents of the page in question are returned to you as a variable. Use your string functions to parse or search that variable for whatever word or words you like. If your search finds your string, you can be reasonably sure that your link appears on the other site. I say "reasonably sure" because the other site may be capable of "fooling the system" and not actually displaying the link correctly, or hiding it in the same font color as the background color, etc. etc.