Social Media Aggregator Using a focused Crawler and a Web & Android UI

Abstract

Today we live in a digital age, with almost each and every one of us having at least one social media account. With things as trivial as what one had for breakfast to the happenings of the world, everything is discussed about on these social media accounts. This paper intends to suggest using this social media as a policing solution, as in contrast to other traditional media such as television and print media, social media offers velocity, veracity, variety, real-time and a large volume of information. A focused web crawler is used to crawl the internet and to stick to the relevant and required topics only. This crawler is integrated with a database to store the information and the information is projected on an android application as well as a web application for the user’s perusal.