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Webbots, spiders, and screen scrapers : a guide to developing Internet agents with PHP/CURL
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Title
Webbots, spiders, and screen scrapers : a guide to developing Internet agents with PHP/CURL / Michael Schrenk.
ISBN
9781593273972
1593273975
9781593274320
1593274327
Edition
2nd ed.
Published
San Francisco : No Starch Press, ©2012.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations
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Summary
"Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers will show you how to create simple programs with PHP/CURL to mine, parse, and archive online data to help you make informed decisions."--Overview from publisher's website.
Variant and related titles
O'Reilly Safari. OCLC KB.
Other formats
Print version: Schrenk, Michael. Webbots, spiders, and screen scrapers. 2nd ed. San Francisco : No Starch Press, ©2012
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 10, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
pt. 1. Fundamental concepts and techniques. What's in it for you?
Ideas for webbot projects
Downloading web pages
Basic parsing techniques
Advanced parsing with regular expressions
Automating form submission
Managing large amounts of data
pt. 2. Projects. Price-monitoring webbots
Image-capturing webbots
Link-verification webbots
Search-ranking webbots
Aggregation webbots
FTP webbots
Webbots that read email
Webbots that send email
Converting a website into a function
pt. 3. Advanced technical considerations. Spiders
Procurement webbots and snipers
Webbots and cryptography
Authentication
Advanced cookie management
Scheduling webbots and spiders
Scraping difficult websites with browser macros
Hacking iMacros
Deployment and scaling
pt. 4. Larger considerations. Designing stealthy webbots and spiders
Proxies
Writing fault-tolerant webbots
Designing webbot-friendly websites
Killing spiders
Keeping webbots out of trouble.
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