[thelist] kazaa spider????

[Michael Pemberton]

"bruce" <bedouglas at earthlink.net> wrote:

> hey...
> 
> not sure where to turn with this ... so i figure i'd ask the list.....
> 
> has anyone ever seen an open source client for kazaa, or any information
> that could be used to write a client that would access the kazaa network.
> i'm interested in writing an app that could crawl/spider across file sharing
> networks.
> 
> i know limewire is open source for the gnutella network, and that would
> probably be a start...
> 
> any help would be appreciated...
> 
> thanks.
> 
> bruce douglas
> bedouglas at earthlink.net
> (925) 866-2790
> 

Check out http://sourceforge.net/projects/gift

They have a disclaimer that if Kazaa goes user-pays, it may stop being
developed.  In the meantime, they appear to be going fine.  I haven't tried
it, but it looks interesting.

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Michael Pemberton
evolt at mpember.net.au