Timmy Miner is a free Firefox add-on able to analyze all text content loaded while browsing. With the help of its C++ text-mining engine, it detects language, builds corpus of webpages and display most important keywords and expressions. Data are displayed in a side panel in Firefox browser and are updated each time a page is loaded. Built-in functionalities allow to export data as frequency lists (CSV, TXT) and thesaurus graphs.
The main interest of the extension is to propose either page and corpus analysis. A corpus is a group of web pages. Timmy Miner can makes you discover what is the vocabulary used in the corpus, and for instance help creating a folksonomy.
Because of his efficient core, this extension can treat hundreds of thousands words and an important number of pages. Then it is easy to get the vocabulary used by a group of websites or blogs. From these data many things can be done, for instance studying what are the domain of interests of a given community or make a do a survey about a given theme.
Besides, Timmy Miner detect the page language and can build expressions graphs (thesaurus) which represent co-occurrences of expressions into pages of the corpus.
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trunk series is the current focus of development.
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- Version control system:
- Bazaar
- Programming languages:
- C++, XUL, XPCOM, Javascript
All bugs Latest bugs reported
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Bug #1245773: Timmy miner does not get installed on Firefox 24.0. Incompatible
Reported on 2013-10-29 -
Bug #398216: XML writing on Linux
Reported on 2009-07-11
