MetaQuest

Android App Analysis and Review: MetaQuest, Developed by Mick Dawdy. Listed in Tools Category. Current Version Is v6q, Updated On 18/09/2023 . According to users reviews on Google Play: MetaQuest. Achieved Over 2 Installs. MetaQuest Currently Has 1 Reviews, Average Rating 5.0 Stars

What is MetaQuest?
MetaQuest is an Android app that facilitates questing through the internet, following links from website to website, peering in here and there, getting an introduction to ethical internet crawling and website scraping, to go wherever you go, to find whatever you may come across, to see what there is to be seen. Yes, this is a true quest through unfamiliar, and perhaps unknown, facets of the MetaVerse.

As an internet crawler and website scraper MetaQuest permits you to visit arbitrary websites and to extract whatever data may be found there - technical bits such as details of the HTML code, images, icon, author, description, keywords, Meta Data, Forms Data, Media, and especially IP addresses, geoLocations and links - and yet even more especially - links to other websites!

Unlike a traditional Web Crawler, with MetaQuest the web crawling is under your control. A typical web crawler such as a Google bot is given a list of “seed sites” and turned loose to crawl and scrape. With MetaQuest, you are the bot and MetaQuest is your tool for crawling and scraping. You control the choice of seed site, which sites you will visit and what data you will scrape. For ideas about choosing seed sites do a Google search for “google seed websites” or similar phrases.

If you are interested in internet crawling and website scraping you should enjoy working with this app. It can be tedious until you become familiar with how to Select | Copy | Paste on your device, how to use technical parts of the app like the stack, until you accommodate yourself to the crawling - this is not a road race! and until you discover which websites are “good seeds” for your particular interests - preferably those with many offsite links.

A note concerning Ethical Web Scraping…
The web crawler should respect the rules set by robots.txt and avoid frequent visits to any single website. MetaQuest gives you the tools to work this way. Web scraping is just like any other tool in the world - you can use it for good stuff and you can use it for bad stuff. That web scraping itself is not illegal doesn’t mean you can scrape any site you want. Some sites explicitly block any sort of automated data extraction either via the robots.txt file or their Terms of Service page. You can find any terms of service page with a browser and Google search. MetaQuest gives you the tools to download and study the robots.txt file, so you can choose to visit or not visit individual sites, and to scrape or not scrape various folders and files, as appropriate.

Crawling and Scraping the Deeper Web!
With Meta Quest you can collect URLs of pages where you may want to extract the HTML code and data. With Deeper Crawling the idea is to search any web page for links, especially for links to other web sites. Then explore those sites for further links, to other countries, to wherever. Then continue, deeper and deeper, into the World Wide Web - the MetaVerse.

From the opening view MetaQuest has practical, introductory lessons to get you started. Plus you will find that you can link to Google Maps, Google Search, Google Files, Google Translate and to your favorite browser, then return to MetaQuest while keeping your “breadcrumbs” intact in The Stack, so you can go to wherever there is a place to go and find whatever is to be found there.

A Preview is available right now!
This introductory Quest begins with an overview of the MetaQuest menu options so you gain an understanding of the app structure and flow. It then starts a quest at https://www.example.com in Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil and tours throughout the internet to Durdevac, Croatia. Afterwards, you should perhaps download the MetaQuest app and continue this tour through Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Turkey, and, well, to wherever… to see what you can see, to find what you can find. Follow this link to get started…
https://mickwebsite.com/MMWebSite/IntroductoryQuest.html

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