Yet another Web Dev tool
 

Heya all!

I've just cut a minute to stop by GFY and let you guys know that I've just finished working on another project of mine. Links Wizard is yet another web development tool that I needed so much but couldnt find anywhere, so there it was born. 90% of the features was suggested to me by other web developers. If you guys feel that there's a feature missing, the please let me know. Feel free to download, and test things out:

http://www.astanda.com

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Quick list of features:

• Almost 100,000 of URLs can be processed within 24 hour period!
• Links Wizard fetches an average of 100 links per minute on Pentium 4 3Ghz with 512 RAM on ADSL connection. An overal performance is determined by the speed you're connecting to the web sites.
• Browse to the page you desire to manage links at.
• Easy to use navigation and feature understanding.
• Supports ANY language! This is a pure WYSIWYG application.
• Fetch all links and URLs from any desired page.
• Save URLs from any page to an ASCII file for later use.
• Filter out unwanted URLs with Regular Expressions and plain text matching.
• Advanced configuration that makes Links Wizard as flexible as possible to fit your needs.
• Collects page titles and descriptions from URLs. If no title or description found, then any desired text can be used.
• Fetch email addresses from all URLs. If there's no email address found, then a preset suggestions can be used.
• Convert text capitalization to "Proper Case", "lower case", and "UPPER CASE".
• Use of Regular Expressions to search and replace any text.
• Filter out links that contain unwanted words, or simply replace or delete these words.
• A preset databases of bad words and URLs that usually are not publically accepted.
• Bad words and bad URLs databases are in plain ASCII, and could be imported/exported any way you like.
• Recip link checking with Regular Expression gives you an ability to check web sites for a link back to your site. This option can also be used to collect data only from links that contan that specific text.
• Ability to filter out URLs based on binary or text output.
• Advanced usage of Server Status Codes allows you to check URLs for broken links, server errors, access denied errors, and find protected URLs!
• Save your results to an ASCII database file that can be imported to any other program, database, or to PHP, PERL, and ASP scripts on your web site.
• Set which delimeter should be used to split the fields.
• Run a quick test of your configuration on any desired URL.
• Ability to stop the engine process at any time to correct configuration.
• Manage and edit the output data in an Excel-like enviroment with flexible grids.
• Export your output data to Microsoft Excel for more advanced management.
• Links Wizard can run on top or behind of other programs on your desktop.
• Hundreds of other processes inside the engine are not listed here.
• New features are being constantly added to the Links Wizard. If you feel that an important feature is missing, the please post your suggestions in the forums. All suggestions are carefully reviewed, and most valuable will be added ASAP.

This is how the final output looks like:
http://www.astanda.com/download/123/9.gif
More screen shots can be found here: http://www.astanda.com/screenshots.html

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Sounds pretty cool but i'm not altogether sure what it does, I will take a look at it when I get more time..

By the way, I just installed a sample directory script with links collected by Links Wizard:
http://www.astanda.com/dir/
It only takes few minutes to fetch hundreds of links with Titles, Emails, and Description; validating links as they come, leaving bad ones behind.

Looks nice for building link directories - can't wait for the full version to try.

Well, not just building directories. TGP owners can check galleries for recip links, redirects, server errors, etc. You can collect contact email addresses from web sites of your interest from DMOZ, Google, or any other search engine.
The next version I'm working on has an option to access DNS information for each web site, pull out emails, physical addresses, phone numbers, etc.

nice tool :)

Can you add:

+check pagerank
+search "string" on bulk urls

Google pagerank is on my to do list. :thumbsup

Search "string"? Go to Config, then Misc. In the "Recip link checking" enter a text string or a regular expression to search for within the contents of each URL. Put a check mark right below the recip text box to get only those web sites that have that string.
For example, if you want to check if any of the galleries on your TGP have a link to The Huns Yellow Pages: <a(.*)href="http://(.*)thehun.com(.*)>(.*)</a>, or if any gallery has the word illegal somewhere in the content.
There's a Test button to test any URL with your custom configuration. Just be careful with invalid regular expressions, as they will most likely put an infinite loop inside the program. For more help with regular expressions search Google for "Regular Expressions".
Note: all regular expressions and text strings are case insensitive.

When Full version will be available ?

As soon as I find a credit card proccessing service that can charge for the software download. I've been turned down by few for the reason that I live in Estonia (eastern europe), that includes PayPal. I've requested pre-sales verification from two companies, and awaiting their reply. They should check the software, verify my banking info, etc.
The price for the full version depends on the volume of sales, chargebacks, piracy, etc. Though, no matter what, the price will not be greater than $39. I also wanted manage a members section where you'd pay once, and then have unlimited access to future versions. Verotel.com would do just fine, but they decided not to.

So, the answer is: ASAP :winkwink:

Also, I've compiled a full version for eSyndiCat Pro. If you use eSyndiCat Pro, then there's a link to the full version 1.2.2 download on their forums: http://www.esyndicat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1246

Full version is available now:
http://www.astanda.com/download.html

By the way Links Wizard 1.2.3 full version is available from http://www.plimus.com
If anybody is interested, I can setup a 50/50 affiliate program right from Plimus. Contact me over the email pgolovko[At]yahoo.com if any one is running a webmaster resource web site and would be interested in getting 50% from Links Wizard sales. All you need is an affiliate account with Plimus.com, and I need to add your affiliate ID to my list.
Your 50% from ($39 minus Plimus share) should be somewhere around $18. So it will be about $180 if you refer just 10 customers.
Let me know if you're interested.

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Links Wizard 1.2.3 finally made it to cNet Download.com:
http://www.astanda.com/download.html
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