[Tutorial] How to find new platforms, footprints and URLs

Ozz

A good start to find new platforms is to have a look at one of these pages:

http://www.wikimatrix.org/

http://www.forummatrix.org/

http://www.weblogmatrix.org/

http://www.softaculous.com/softaculous/softwares

http://installatron.com/apps

https://netenberg.com/fantastico.html <-- click "scripts"

http://www.pelaphptutorials.com/job/Xrumer-7-custom-Mods-development-required.html

http://alternativeto.net/ <-- helps you to find similar platforms to existing ones

Once you have targeted a decent platform you have to find good footprints for the search engines. What I do first is to google for "powered by XYZ" (XYZ= platform name) because many engines use this footprint. If you don't find anything related to the platform try another search like "XYZ" demo. Often times you find a demo page to search for suitable and unique footprints. This is often the case for platforms which are supported by softaculous.

A good footprint is unique to the platform and can be found anywhere on the page ("Howdy, Stranger! It looks like you're new here.") or in the url (inurl:"wiki/members.php").

Once you have found a suitable footprint you create a basic script for GSA in an editor.

_[setup]

_enabled=1

_{default checked=0}

_{page must have=Footprint (without quotes; no "inurl:" footprint!! take a look into existing engine files to get an idea of it)}

_{engine type=MyEngines}

_{description=Platform (Wiki, Forum, Blog, etc.)}

_{search term="Footprint 1"|"Footprint 2" (with quotes " " if it is a multi part keyword)}

Save your edited script, rename it to "My Engines - XYZ.ini" and paste it into your engine folder (...\Program Files (x86)\GSA Search Engine Ranker\Engines). If you have done that (re-)start SER and crawl some URLs with the "Search online for URLs"-Tool (Options -> Advanced -> Tools), save your results to a custom file and let SER find some URLs for you

Sven

Thanks for your contribution.

I just hope people start coding soon.

knector

Those sites are great to find new platforms, thanks for posting them.

http://www.wikimatrix.org/
http://www.forummatrix.org/
http://www.weblogmatrix.org/
http://www.softaculous.com/softaculous/softwares

Ozz

np, I'm glad you reminded me that I wanted to add some more sources to the list. especially the xrumer-list is usefull imo.

the software installer sites have the advantage that you can demo-test the platforms to get footprints.

Ozz

Added 
http://alternativeto.net/ to OP as it helps you to find similar platforms to existing ones.

Example: http://alternativeto.net/software/vbulletin/

awint

can SER post to the new url?
or it just for scrap?

Ozz

No, its just helps to identify the platform. No posting.