Most users use FTP only to solve some issues with the site. Not everyone knows that using this protocol you can quickly download data from special servers. The problem is that few have heard of special search engines for searching files via FTP. Such FTP search will be considered in this article. You will learn how the search engine for FTP servers works, what search services are and how to use them.
How FTP Search Engine Works
There are many sites on the Internet and a large number of FTP servers. Not all servers are protected by passwords and logins, since not every host is used to store some kind of private information or site data. Therefore, special services have appeared that allow you to view files inside servers with anonymous connection allowed.
FTP search engines work just like regular search engines, only they have much less functions.
All they do is check your request against the names of the files that are on the servers. And although this is a very limited type of search, you can download documents and files with high speed, which the standard browser loader will never allow.
Using search engines of such a plan is recommended only if you are looking for some kind of file on the Internet and want to find a link so that you can immediately download it. There are no advertisements or fraudulent links on FTP servers - a stack of files is immediately in front of you, you just need to connect to the server, go to the desired directory and drop the data to your computer. And you can do this either using a special client program, like FileZilla, or using the standard features of the operating system through Explorer.
What are the search engines for searching files via FTP
Previously, there was a popular AllTheWeb service with the ability to filter data via FTP. A few years ago it was the most popular in terms of searching for files on various FTP protocol servers. But now not - it has turned into Yahoo, and the ability to search FTP servers inside the network has been removed.
But there were many other FTP op search engines that still function. One of these is the FindFiles service. Unfortunately, its capabilities have deteriorated in many ways. Now you can search through this site applications without using FTP servers. But for PC users who are looking for a specific program, the service will be useful.
One of the surviving FTP search engines, which still provides good search results during the search, is the FileSearch service. In general, its functionality is minimal. You can choose the type of file you are looking for (audio, folder, music, picture, video or server name), as well as search the world or only in Russia. Then enter the search phrase and get a list of file paths on different FTP servers on the planet. Now you only need to connect to them using an anonymous connection and transfer data to the computer.
Another equally popular global FTP search service is Napalm. It contains information about more than a billion files on almost 16 thousand servers, which is a good indicator for an FTP search engine! The only option during the search is either to search for all words from the search phrase, or for any word from it. More detailed search filtering is available after you enter the search phrase in the line. Then you can sort the files by date, size and find the format that you need.
The indicated two servers are enough for you to quickly find the necessary files on the servers. Such a search will appeal to game lovers, because the Napalm search engine provides a lot of games and programs that can be installed on a computer immediately after downloading.
At first glance, the search for a file on the Internet by the necessary file hosting topic is unpromising. But this is only at first glance. Until there is a need to find a specific file on a specific file hosting service. Why on a specific file hosting? Because regular user most often is the lucky owner of one paid gold account. Well, of course, since the money has been paid, you need to use this file hosting service for all 200 percent.
Of course, you can score the name desired file in any of the search engines, but the search results in them are displayed without reference to the exchanger. You can get used to and add to the file name the name of the file hosting service. The results will already be better, but still poorly readable.
It is much easier to use any of the online services. Personally, having spent half an hour, today I have found only three workers. And I will be very grateful if visitors add their findings in the comments.
You can search here on Rapidshare, Dfiles, Mega, 4shared, Mediafire, and Turbobit. We write or copy the name of the file in the search field, mark the desired file hosting (file sharing) and click the "SearchFile" button. You can sort the search by file size.
The screenshot shows the page with the search results for my request. Checked all file hosting in turn. Everybody works. There is an option to search by region, although this is not relevant to us, Russia is not on the list.
The file hosting services declared on it are already much larger, though I have never heard of most of them: Mega.co.nz, Bitshare.com, Wupload.com, Freakshare.com, Depositfiles.com, Mediafire.com, Filefactory.com, Rapidshare.com, Uploadstation.com, and Uploaded.to. The search procedure itself is similar to the above.
A nice addition to video search on YouTube, Dalealplay, Metacafe and Googlevideo. True, it is worth considering that the service is Spanish, so some videos have a status without showing in Russia.
Professional search on the Internet requires specialized software, as well as specialized search engines and search services.
PROGRAMS
http://dr-watson.wix.com/home - the program is designed to study arrays of textual information in order to identify entities and the relationships between them. The result of the work is a report on the investigated object.
http://www.fmsasg.com/ - one of the best Sentinel Vizualizer connections and relationship visualization programs in the world. The company has completely Russified its products and connected hotline in Russian.
http://www.newprosoft.com/ - “Web Content Extractor” is the most powerful, easy-to-use software for extracting data from web sites. It also has an effective visual web spider.
http://neowatcher.com/ru/ - useful and simple program to track changes on sites. The number of sites is not limited.
SiteSputnik – a world-class software package that allows you to search and process its results on the Visible and Invisible Internet, using all the search engines necessary for the user.
WebSite-Watcher - allows you to monitor web pages, including password-protected, monitoring forums, RSS feeds, news groups, local files. It has a powerful filter system. Monitoring is automatic and comes in a user-friendly form. An advanced program costs 50 euros. Constantly updated.
http://www.scribd.com/ - the most popular in the world and increasingly widely used in Russia platform for posting various kinds of documents, books, etc. for free access with a very convenient search engine for names, topics, etc.
http://www.atlasti.com/ - is the most powerful and effective tool for the qualitative analysis of information available to individual users, small and even medium-sized businesses. The program is multifunctional and therefore useful. It combines the ability to create a single information environment for working with various text, tabular, audio and video files as a whole, as well as tools for qualitative analysis and visualization.
Ashampoo ClipFinder HD - An ever-increasing share of the information flow falls on the video. Accordingly, competitive intelligence agents need tools to work with this format. One such product is the free utility provided. It allows you to search for videos by the specified criteria on video file storage such as YouTube. The program is easy to use, displays on one page all the search results with detailed information, names, duration, time, when the video was uploaded to the repository, etc. There is a Russian interface.
http://www.advego.ru/plagiatus/ - the program was made by seo optimizers, but it is quite suitable as an Internet intelligence tool. Plagiarism shows the degree of uniqueness of the text, sources of the text, the percentage of coincidence of the text. The program also checks the uniqueness of the specified URL. The program is free.
http://neiron.ru/toolbar/ - includes an add-in for combining Google and Yandex search, and also allows for competitive analysis based on an assessment of the effectiveness of sites and contextual advertising. Implemented as a plugin for FF and GC.
http://web-data-extractor.net/ is a universal solution for obtaining any data available on the Internet. Setting the cutting of data from any page is done in a few mouse clicks. You just need to select the data area that you want to save and Datacol will select the formula for cutting this block.
CaptureSaver is a professional Internet research tool. Just an indispensable work program that allows you to capture, store and export any Internet information, including not only web pages, blogs, but also RSS news, email, images, and more. It has the broadest functionality, an intuitive interface and a ridiculous price.
http://www.orbiscope.net/en/software.html - a web monitoring system at more than affordable prices.
http://www.kbcrawl.co.uk/ - software for work, including on the Invisible Internet.
http://www.copernic.com/en/products/agent/index.html - the program allows you to search using more than 90 search engines, more than 10 parameters. Allows you to combine results, eliminate duplicates, block broken links, show the most relevant results. Comes in free, personal and professional versions. Used by more than 20 million users.
Maltego is a fundamentally new software that allows you to establish the relationship of subjects, events and objects in real life and on the Internet.
SERVICES
new http://www.intelsuite.com/en is an online platform for advanced Internet intelligence. The price is 69 euros per month.
http://linkurio.us/ - a new powerful product for economic security workers and corruption investigators. Processes and visualizes huge arrays of unstructured information from financial sources.
http://www.intelsuite.com/en is an English-language online platform for competitive intelligence and monitoring.
http://yewno.com/about/ - the first existing system for translating information into knowledge and visualizing unstructured information. Currently supports English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese.
https://start.avalancheonline.ru/landing/?next\u003d%2F - forecasting and analytical services of Andrei Masalovich.
https://www.outwit.com/products/hub/ - a complete set of stand-alone programs for professional work on the web 1.
http://www.iptrackeronline.com/email-header-analysis.php - email analysis service.
https://github.com/search?q\u003duser%3Acmlh+maltego - extensions for Maltego.
http://www.whoishostingthis.com/ - search engine for hosting, IP addresses, etc.
http: // appfollow .ru / - analysis of applications based on reviews, ASO optimization, positions in tops and search results for the App Store, Google Play and Windows Phone Store.
http://spiraldb.com/ - a service implemented as a plug-in to Chrom, which allows you to get a lot of valuable information about any electronic resource.
https://millie.northernlight.com/dashboard.php?id\u003d93 - a free service that collects and structures key information by industry and company. It is possible to use dashboards based on text analysis.
http://byratino.info/ - collection of factual data from publicly available sources on the Internet.
http://www.datafox.co/ - CI platform collecting and analyzing information on companies of interest to customers. There is a demo.
https://unwiredlabs.com/home is a specialized application with an API for geolocation search of any device connected to the Internet.
http://visualping.io/ - site monitoring service and, first of all, photographs and images available on them. Even if the photo appeared for a second, it will be in e-mail subscriber. Has a plugin for G oogleC hrome.
http://spyonweb.com/ is a research tool that allows you to perform in-depth analysis of any Internet resource.
http://bigvisor.ru/ - the service allows you to track advertising campaigns for certain segments of goods and services, or for specific organizations.
http://www.itsec.pro/2013/09/microsoft-word.html - instructions by Artem Ageev on using Windows programs for the needs of competitive intelligence.
http://granoproject.org/ - open source tool source code for researchers who track networks of relationships between individuals and organizations in politics, economics, crime, etc. Allows you to connect, analyze and visualize information obtained from various sources, as well as show significant relationships.
http://imgops.com/ - a service for extracting metadata from graphic files and working with them.
http://sergeybelove.ru/tools/one-button-scan/ - A small on-line scanner to check the security holes of sites and other resources.
http://isce-library.net/epi.aspx - a service of searching for primary sources by a fragment of text in English
https://www.rivaliq.com/ is an effective tool for conducting competitive intelligence in the Western, primarily European and American markets for goods and services.
http://watchthatpage.com/ - a service that allows you to automatically collect new information from monitoring resources on the Internet. Services are free.
http://falcon.io/ is a kind of Rapportive for the Web. It is not a replacement for Rapportive, but provides additional tools. In contrast, Rapportive gives a general profile of a person, as if glued from data from social networks and mentions in web.http: //watchthatpage.com/ - a service that allows you to automatically collect new information from monitoring resources on the Internet. Services are free.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en/firefox/addon/update-scanner/ - add-on for Firefox. Keeps track of web page updates. Useful for websites that do not have news feeds (Atom or RSS).
http://agregator.pro/ - aggregator of news and media portals. Used by marketers, analysts, etc. for analyzing news flows on various topics.
http://price.apishops.com/ - an automated web-based price monitoring service for selected product groups, specific online stores and other parameters.
http://www.la0.ru/ - a convenient and relevant service for the analysis of links and backlinks to an Internet resource.
www.recordedfuture.com - a powerful tool for data analysis and visualization, implemented as an online service, built on "cloud" computing.
http://advse.ru/ - service under the slogan “Learn everything about your competitors”. Allows you to get competitor sites in accordance with search queries, analyze the advertising companies of competitors in Google and Yandex.
http://spyonweb.com/ - the service allows you to identify sites with the same characteristics, including those using the same Google Analytics statistics service identifiers, IP addresses, etc.
http://diphur.com/introduction - an application for monitoring any sites. Notifies you of site updates and brings updates. The version is free.
http://www.connotate.com/solutions - a line of products for competitive intelligence, information flow management and converting information into information assets. It includes both complex platforms and simple low-cost services that allow you to effectively monitor along with the compression of information and obtaining only the desired results.
http://www.clearci.com/ is a competitive intelligence platform for businesses of various sizes, from startups and small companies to Fortune 500 companies. Solved as saas.
http://saplo.com/ - a new, but already recognized in the world, Swedish startup that has developed a product line for data text. All products have an API.
http://startingpage.com/ is an add-on on Google that allows you to search on Google without fixing your IP address. Fully supports all the search capabilities of Google, including Russian.
http://newspapermap.com/ - a unique service, very useful for a competitive intelligence agent. Connects geolocation with an online media search engine. Those. you select the region or even the city or language that interests you, on the map you see a place and a list of online versions of newspapers and magazines, click on the appropriate button and read. Supports Russian language, very user-friendly interface.
http://infostream.com.ua/ - a very convenient Infostream news monitoring system, distinguished by a first-class selection, quite affordable for any wallet, from one of the Internet search classics D.V. Lande.
http://www.instapaper.com/ is a very simple and effective tool for saving the necessary web pages. It can be used on computers, iPhones, iPads, etc.
http://www.wizardrss.com/ - allows you to convert RSS to full texts.
http://screen-scraper.com/ - allows you to automatically extract all information from web pages, download the vast majority of file formats, automatically enter data in various forms. It saves downloaded files and pages in databases, and performs many other extremely useful functions. It works under all major platforms, has full-featured free and very powerful professional versions.
http://www.mozenda.com/- having several tariff plans and accessible even for small businesses, a web service of multifunctional web monitoring and delivery of information that a user needs from selected sites.
http://www.recipdonor.com/ - the service allows you to automatically monitor everything that happens on the websites of competitors.
http://www.spyfu.com/ - and this, if you have foreign competitors.
www.webground.su - a service created by Internet search professionals for monitoring the Runet, which includes all the main suppliers of information, news, etc., is capable of individual monitoring settings for the user's needs.
SEARCHERS
https: // www .idmarch .org / - the best quality search engine in the world archive of pdf documents. Currently, more than 18 million pdf documents have been indexed, from books to secret reports.
http://www.marketvisual.com/ - a unique search engine that allows you to search for owners and top management by name, company name, position, or combination thereof. The search results contain not only the desired objects, but also their relationships. Designed primarily for English-speaking countries.
http://worldc.am/ - photo search engine in the public domain with reference to geolocation.
https://app.echosec.net/ is a publicly available search engine that characterizes itself as the most advanced analytical tool for law enforcement agencies and security and intelligence professionals. Allows you to search for photos posted on various sites, social platforms and in social networks in relation to specific geolocation coordinates. Currently, seven data sources are connected. By the end of the year their number will be more than 450. Thanks for the tip, Dementia.
http://www.quandl.com/ - search engine for seven million financial, economic and social databases.
http://bitzakaz.ru/ - search engine for tenders and government orders with additional paid features
Website-Finder - allows you to find sites that are poorly indexed by Google. The only limitation is that for each keyword he searches only 30 websites. The program is easy to use.
http://www.dtsearch.com/ - a powerful search engine that allows you to process terabytes of text. It works on the desktop, on the Internet and on the intranet. Supports both static and dynamic data. Allows you to search in all MS Office programs. Search is conducted by phrases, words, tags, indexes and much more. The only federated search system available. It has both paid and free versions.
http://www.strategator.com/ - carries out the search, filtering and aggregation of company information from tens of thousands of web sources. Searches for the USA, Great Britain, the main countries of the EEC. It is highly relevant, user friendly, has a free and paid option ($ 14 per month).
http://www.shodanhq.com/ - an unusual search engine. Immediately after the appearance, he received the nickname "Google for hackers." It does not look for pages, but determines IP addresses, types of routers, computers, servers and workstations located at a particular address, traces DNS server chains and allows you to implement many other interesting functions for competitive intelligence.
http://search.usa.gov/ - search engine for sites and open databases of all US government agencies. The databases contain a lot of practical useful information, including for use in our country.
http://visual.ly/ - today, visualization is increasingly being used to represent data. This is the first infographic search engine on the web. At the same time as the search engine, the portal has powerful data visualization tools that do not require programming skills.
http://go.mail.ru/realtime - search for discussions of topics, events, objects, subjects in real time or custom time. Earlier highly criticized search in Mail.ru works very efficiently and gives interesting relevant results.
Zanran is the first and only search engine for data that has just started, but already works perfectly, extracting it from PDF files, EXCEL tables, data on HTML pages.
http://www.ciradar.com/Competitive-Analysis.aspx is one of the best systems in the world for finding information for competitive intelligence in the “deep web”. Extracts almost all types of files in all formats on a topic of interest. Implemented as a web service. Prices are more than reasonable.
http://multitender.ru/tenders - specialized search system on public procurement, tenders and auctions. Full coverage of information, user-friendly interface, very gentle consumer wallet prices.
http://public.ru/ - Effective search and professional analysis of information, media archive since 1990. The online media library offers a wide range of information services: from access to electronic archives of publications of Russian-language media and prepared thematic press reviews to individual monitoring and exclusive analytical studies based on press materials.
Cluuz is a young search engine with broad capabilities for competitive intelligence, especially on the English-language Internet. It allows not only to find, but also to visualize, establish connections between people, companies, domains, e-mail, addresses, etc.
www.wolframalpha.com - tomorrow's search engine. On the search query, it provides the statistical and factual information available on the query object, including visualized information.
www.ist-budget.ru - universal search through databases of public procurement, tenders, auctions, etc.
Search for files on FTP servers
many Internet users, when searching for necessary files and programs, search for html pages by their contents, not knowing the existence of search tools that allow you to search for files on FTP servers by the names of the files and directories themselves. Indeed, if you are looking for a description of a program, you should do it on Web servers. If you know the name of the program and are looking for a server from which it can be downloaded, it is more convenient to use the FTP resource search engine. One of the popular file search systems is the resource http://www.filesearch.ru/
In fig. Figure 6 shows the result of a search for FTP servers from which you can download CuteFTP.
On the site http://www.filesearch.ru/ You can also find a list of the largest FTP servers. The first place in the rating, naturally, belongs to the resource that stores MP3 files, and its volume is simply amazing - more than 2 thousand gigabytes!
Conclusion
FTP has its advantages and disadvantages. The main disadvantage is that, unlike the Web service on the FTP server, you get a minimum additional information about resources - all information is presented as a list of files on remote computer.
If you download files directly from Web pages using the HTTP protocol (and do not resort to special resuming programs), then with a slow connection, download large file hard enough. The fact is that the procedure for transferring files to HTTP has a big minus in the form of the absence of such a useful function as reget (resume function). This means that if a connection break occurs when using the HTTP protocol, you will have to download the file from the very beginning. When using the FTP protocol, you can use the Reget function and continue downloading from where you left off. Τᴀᴋᴎᴍ ᴏϬᴩᴀᴈᴏᴍ, it is imperative to consider the strengths and weaknesses of each protocol.
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FTP (File Transfer Protocol - file transfer protocol) appeared in 1971 and is actively used to this day. This standard internet protocol is simplest way to share files between computers on the Internet. FTP is protocol based base level TCP / IP
the main purpose of FTP is to send (copy, transfer) files on the Internet from a remote computer to a local (Download) and from a local computer to a remote (Upload). Using the FTP protocol, you can also work with your files directly on the remote computer. It should be noted that unlike Web servers that provide read-only information, FTP servers allow users to not only download information, but also add information to the server. In particular, the FTP protocol is used to transfer the files from which Web pages are constructed.
Naturally, the right to change information on the server should be granted only to the owners of this information. User rights when accessing the FTP server are regulated by login and password, but this does not mean that there are no servers on the Web that are accessible to a wide audience. Many servers can be accessed under a conditional name, in which case a limited set of files will be available to you.
In general, the format of an FTP resource address is:
ftp: //
- user - user name (login);
- password - password;
- host - domain name or IP address of the server;
- url-path - path to the file.
The port is usually not specified, but the standard one is used - 21.
To access shared servers, it is enough to specify anonymous as the username, and your email address as the password. For anonymous FTP, the url has a simplified syntax: ftp: //
FTP clients
fTP FTP is based on a client-server architecture. A client program is launched on the client computer, which connects to the server and transfers or receives files. Access to the FTP server can be done using FTP clients of different classes, namely:
- console client - ftp.exe program, supplied with the operating room windows system;
- FTP client embedded in the browser (e.g. Internet explorer or Netscape Navigator);
- FTP client built into the file manager (in particular, FAR or Windows Commander);
- FTP client built into the HTML editor (HomeSite, Dreamweaver or FrontPage);
- special programs (e.g. CuteFTP or WS FTP).
Access using ftp.exe
Ftp.exe is a console client that does not have a graphical interface and is the least convenient. We cite it only because it is useful for clarifying the main question posed in the headline: "how does it work."
Running ftp.exe, you will enter an interactive session: the program will provide you with a command line and will wait for requests. There are several dozens of teams for dialogue, some of which are given below:
- cd [remote_directory] - change the directory;
- mkdir [directory_name] - create a directory on the remote machine;
- get [remote_file] [local_file] - transfer a copy of the remote file to your computer. If the local file name was not specified, then it matches the name of the remote file;
- reget [deleted_file] [local_file] - resume remote file in the event that part of it is already on the local machine. The team is especially useful for getting large files with possible reserves of the compound;
- put [local_file] [remote_file] - forward the file to the remote system. If the name of the remote file is not specified, then it matches the name on the local system;
- delete [deleted_file] - delete the deleted file;
- close - end an FTP session with a remote server and return to the shell;
- bye - finish working with the FTP server (leads to exit the interpreter).
Note. Full list commands and more information can be found in RFC 959.
It should be noted that the FTP protocol provides a long-term interactive connection, while the HTTP protocol transmits the requested object within one session, and then disconnects. FTP allows you to maintain a conversation and maintain a connection until a command is given to terminate the communication session.
FTP protocol understands two types of files - text and binary, and all non-text files are perceived as binary. Work through an FTP connection is carried out in the same way as the exchange of text messages (service commands), and directly those files that are moved between two computers.
The console form of work is less convenient for users, but it allows you to better understand what exactly is happening, what commands the computer executes. The graphical interface provides a shell that is more convenient to work with, but hides some lower-level processes from the user. Since graphical interfaces are more convenient, in the future we will talk about them.
Access via FTP client integrated in the file manager
file manager with built-in FTP client expands its functions - from the service level file system local computer to Internet level. One of the most successful file managers, which provides convenient access to file archives on the Internet via FTP, is the FAR program. It allows you to pre-configure the settings for connecting to the FTP server by typing the server address, username and password for access, as well as other parameters. You can configure any number of such connections, and then connect to the server by selecting one of the previously configured connections. The list of FTP servers can have a branching structure, that is, inside it you can create folders and put new connections to FTP servers there or copy existing ones. After connecting, working with the server to transfer files is no different from working with files on the local computer. The same functions are available for copying, deleting, creating files and directories on an FTP server (Fig. 2).
Working with FTP servers in Windows Commander is a little different: the list of connections to the servers is presented as a separate window called from the menu. In this window, you can edit the connection parameters. After establishing a connection with the selected server, this connection is visible as a separate disk. Unlike FAR, in Windows Commander you can simultaneously open many connections and work with them in the same way as with the disks of your own computer. If you do not need to add a connection to the list, you can not configure the connection parameters with the FTP server in advance, but set them during the connection. It is possible to pre-create a list of files that need to be downloaded from an FTP server, and specify a directory where to write them.
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CuteFTP 5.0 XP has a simple visual interface (Fig. 4), a convenient hint system, instead of command line offers a Windows-like interface and supports most standard for Windows featurese.g. drag-and-drop. A simple interface allows you to use the product with virtually no training. |
