What is the easiest way for someone with knowledge in PHP/MySQL to get all data from a business directory into a database or a spreadsheet?
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An example of a directory with links to details for each entry: http://www.nswbusinesschamber.com.au/Business-directory.aspx?name=&location= . Maybe programming a spider?
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Answer:
My favorite solution to 'screen-scraping', which is what the above really is, is to use Google Doc's spreadsheet with XPath against the page.
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Other answers
A more non-technically answer: How about just crowd-sourcing it? Have a look at Amazon Mechanical Turk. They do amazing and crazy stuff there.
Lutz Villalba
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