Alecto is an open source project aimed at creating a crawler that works with several scripting languages, such as Perl, Ruby and Python.

Also included is a stand-alone JSON attribute server. In any language, you can POST and GET using simple key-value pairs. Objects are stored in JSON format.

PREWORK:
You must install the following packages:
pcre ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/
libcurl http://curl.haxx.se/download.html
json-c http://oss.metaparadigm.com/json-c/

TO BUILD:
./configure
make
cd server
./configure
make
cd ..
make


- David Kellogg