What exactly is URL scraping?
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I am trying to scrape a page that is generated on the fly by a webserver. Consistent data is submitted (by me) to the CGI on the target machine, then a report is generated on the fly and a redirect is issued. I need the script to obtain and follow this...
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Hello grabby-ga There are few exact details in your question so I will give a generic perl script that...
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The website I am keeping tabs on has a new web page for each new product promotion. So I wonder if it is at all possible to build a search engine / web crawler to keep up to date with it. In other words, I want to collect the subdomain URLs on a given...
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What you are asking is called web scraping. You would use some kind of script that is scheduled to visit...
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Screen-scraping is a process by which content can be pulled off a website/ecommerce engine on the internet using robot/crawler scripts and can then be used on one's portal for end consumers to search/look on. This technique is useful in aggregating required...
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bajubakait-ga, Thanks for a most interesting question. As far as I know, there is little or no law...
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I would like to scrape information from an RSS feed into an Excel-readable text file for a completely legal non-copyright violating use. In a better world, I'd have access to the database that generates the feed, but since this ain't a perfect world...
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A project at work has come up, and I would save a lot of time and hassle if I could somehow get my hands on a free (cheap is acceptable, as long as I can try it first), easy to use web-scraping program. The URL from which I will be scraping is static...
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Looking to start a 20k+ request screen scraping project, what sort of guidelines (in addition to those I plan to implement) do I need to follow to avoid having the hounds sent out after me. A corporate site has a collection of about ~20k freely available...
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A couple of extra tips, from someone who's both scraped lots of data and defended a website from scrapers...
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ParanoiaFilter: Should I be worried that Facebook is scraping my links, in my own private messages? Assuming you are on Facebook, you probably already know that by putting a link in the private messages' textfield, the system will automatically try to...
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Yes, Facebook records and analyses every single action you take on the site. Yes, you should be worried...
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Hi all, is there any Good Data Scraping tool / software to get Products data from online store ? I mean , exp : i need to get all products data (tittle,Desc,Image URL, SKU etc) from Amazon (or any Online store) in specific category (exp: LAPTOP)...
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I found some tutorials on youtube about scraping websites. I think they can also be used to scrape onlin...
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My application needs to fetch the exact contents of the RSS Feed entry corresponding to that news article URL. Scraping/Parsing the page is not an option.
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Without knowing your specific application development environment, it's hard to be precise. The key...
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I am trying to come up with a model that will go over a number of URLs in a training set and identify new patterns in the test set. Let's say I have 2 sets of URLs that comes to my website First set includes the following: http://www.google.com/url?somert...
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