Haven't done this, but I've got a good idea how you could... Remember that Catalog indexes objects, which means methods or properties, which means, if you can grab remote content via a method, you can index it; just keep in mind you would need a one-to-one relationship between a local (proxy) object and a remote page. You need to come up with an API and methods framework for spidering your content via http, using a python http client. For each 'page' you will need to create a CatalogAware proxy object in the object database that stores metadata such as the URL (put these proxy objects in a container capable of having lots of objects, like a BTreeFolder). Then you use Catalog to index methods (which really get remote text content) using a text index. Consider, if you have the ability, to cache as much useful metadata in these proxy objects about those pages. I am doing something similar with relational data being indexed with ZCatalog; in the case of data in an relational datastore, I have to have a proxy-object-per-record; in your case, you would need a proxy-object-per-page. Sean -----Original Message----- From: abg@comco-inc.com [mailto:abg@comco-inc.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 7:01 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Using ZCatalog for Outside Content I'd like to use ZCatalog to catalog websites stored outside of Zope. I have seen a few passing references to this being a feature of ZCatalog, but no documentation on the subject. Has anyone used ZCatalog in this manner? Any tips on how to accomplish this? Thanks in advance, Aaron Gillette _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )