Full-text Fetcher is an automated tool for retrieving the full-text of a specific article from a variety of different sources. It was created as a final year project at the University of Glasgow. The purpose of this project was to investigate and provide a fully automated and hassle free way of retrieving articles from the Internet, as opposed to using manual web browsing procedures.
Full-text Fetcher accepts the following inputs:
And will perform a search over the following services for a particular kind of result (pdf document, web page, etc):
FTF will then aggregate these results together and display them (along with any associated metadata (e.g. from PubMed) that can be found about a particular match).
Please note that * indicates that this is a locally run search service that depends on installed software on the host machine and not an independent web service or website.
Full-text Fetcher is written in the Java programming language, so you will need a suitable Java SDK installed (version 5.0 or later) in order to run run it. Please refer to the INSTALL documentation for details on how to do this.
The following distributions are currently available:
A tarball distribution of the latest version of FTF for *NIX platforms.
A special case tarball for OSX.
A zipped distribution of the latest version of FTF for Microsoft Windows users.
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This is the first release and therefore experimental. Please refer to the contact section on what to do if you encounter problems. |
Here are some screenshots of FTF in action
A development version can be checked out directly from an online subversion repository at http://svn.brokentrain.net/ftf/trunk or viewed directly online.
Please refer to the accompanying documentation, specifically README and INSTALL on how to install and use the software.
In the event of any bugs, issues or just general comments please contact the author at gavin@brokentrain.net