Ask YC: What tool do you use to crawl and spell check your entire website?

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by brandong • 18 years ago

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What tool do you use to crawl and spell check your entire website?

brianlash• 18 years ago

It was in closed beta as recently as May, but I've heard promising things about Spellr.us. TextTrust too.

adrianwaj• 18 years ago

http://www.httrack.com/ - it won't let you spell check. For that, you'd need another app. Something about writing your own Python spelling app here: http://www.norvig.com/spell-correct.html - good luck.

jrockway• 18 years ago

If I were doing this, I would write a quick Perl script that uses Gungho for crawling your site, HTML::TreeBuilder for extracting the text, and Text::Aspell for spell-checking the page.

But, I probably wouldn't do this, because spell checking is irrelevant. It won't tell you if your prose makes sense, it won't tell you if you've used the wrong words, and it won't tell you if the content is out of date. It's best to go through your site and see if it all makes sense. Only a human can do that.

albertcardona• 18 years ago

I consider a spell checker obvious, a commodity. Even simple notepad apps like TextEdit.app or gedit have it.

What I'd like is an integrated grammar checker.

Ask YC: What tool do you use to crawl and spell check your entire website?

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