Perl : ProcLog Search Keywords/Phrases

proclog.pl    October 24th, 2000

proclog.pl processes Apache log files and extracts search keywords or phrases. This gives me what people are typing into search engines to get to my site.

This is not a finished script, the report it creates is not beautiful, the data is fairly raw but it gives me a rough idea of what terms are being used.

The report is spit out to the standard output (screen) so be sure to send it to a file if you want the report in a file.

Usage:

You may have to edit the script and the way it parses the log file to retrieve the referer URL, which is the only bit of the log file needed. My logs has all data in one file, it is also common to have the referers in a seperate log file.

Download Script: proclog_pl.txt

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