snJmetadesc - meta description generator perl tool

Automatic meta description generator perl script for Joomla! 1.5. Note: You need shell access to use this tool. snJmetadesc connects to Joomla! 1.5 database and goes through all articles. It extracts the beginning of each article content, removes any markup and adds the resulting string as the meta description of that article if none exists previously or if the original meta description is also autogenerated by this script. Most Joomla! developers would call this a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tool, but this is really just an automatic meta description generator. It is intended to be run manually (from shell prompt) after updating any articles or periodically from cron(8). This script serves also as an example how Joomla! configuration parameters and database can be accessed and manipulated from a perl script.

Original Source: Joomla! Extensions Directory