US 2013/0173581 A1Published application

Scenario-based crawling

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsIGAL KREICHMAN, Omer Tripp

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Abstract

An interactive session can be established between a crawling bot and a Web site. The crawling bot can defines a session state representing a user state for interacting with one or more Web sites, a set of conditions, and a set of scenarios to be selectively activated based on whether the set of conditions are satisfied. The crawling bot can receive content from the Web site during the interactive session. The crawling bot can parse the content from the Web site and can matching the parsed content against a previously defined set of items to determine whether the content matching condition is satisfied. If the content matching condition is satisfied and if the state condition is satisfied, the crawling bot, activating of the scenarios defined by the crawling bot can be active, which is not activated if the content matching condition and the state condition are not satisfied.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

establishing, via at least one processor executing program instructions stored on at least one storage device, an interactive session between a crawling bot and a Web site, wherein the crawling bot defines a session state representing a user state for interacting with one or more Web sites, a set of conditions, and a set of scenarios to be selectively activated based on whether the set of conditions are satisfied or not, wherein said set of conditions includes a state condition for whether the user state is equal to a preconfigured value or not, and wherein said set of conditions includes a content matching condition;
the crawling bot, via at least one processor executing program instructions of the crawling bot where the program instructions are stored on at least one storage device, receiving content from the Web site during the interactive session;
the crawling bot, via at least one processor executing program instructions of the crawling bot where the program instructions are stored on at least one storage device, parsing the content from the Web site, and matching the parsed content against a previously defined set of items to determine whether the content matching condition is satisfied or not;
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if the content matching condition is satisfied and if the state condition is satisfied, the crawling bot, via at least one processor executing program instructions of the crawling bot where the program instructions are stored on at least one storage device, activating one of the scenarios defined by the crawling bot, which is not activated by the crawling bot when the content matching condition and the state condition are not satisfied.

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