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Scraping data from various industries 11 Jun 2013 | 04:11 am
We’ve just added several new scraping sessions that exemplify extracting data from sites in various industries. If you go to our home page and click on one of the buttons corresponding to an industry...
Apache Commons 29 May 2013 | 01:59 am
We’ve recently included libraries for Apache Commons Lang. There is a large number of useful things in there, but I find most use for stringUtils and wordUtils. For example, some sites one might scra...
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Train times v. house prices: the commuter belt, on a graph darkgreener.com 14 Oct 2011 | 03:16 am
We’re house-hunting. And for me, like most coders, house-hunting involves lots and lots and lots of screen-scraping. As well as crawling Rightmove listings, I’ve been looking at transport and house-p...
Chart your websites performance in the search engines netlife.com.au 20 May 2007 | 10:38 pm
We are always looking for ways of accurately reporting the success of websites in the search engines. Screen scraping the search engine result pages is not always an option since they often lock you o...
Chuck Norris doesn’t screen-scrape, the data runs scared to his hard drive. neilkodner.com 2 Mar 2011 | 09:51 am
Inspired by a tweet from Roger Ehrenberg and my 11-year-old son who’s crazy about Chuck Norris facts, I screen-scraped the contents of http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com. Code and data can be found here....
Scrapy + Selenium + Headless Firefox irfani.web.id 25 Jun 2011 | 04:27 am
Scrapy is a fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework, used to crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. It can be used for a wide range of purposes, from data mini...
PHP5: Screen scraping with DOM and XPath php.fallenray.com 6 Mar 2008 | 08:09 pm
This tutorial is continuation from previous yahoo screen-scraping using PHP4 tutorial. We will try different method using DOM and XPath which only supported in PHP5. First, a bit knowledge of XPath ...
Regular Expression to Screen-Scrape VIEWSTATE value from an ASP.NET Login page mycsharpcorner.com 18 Jun 2008 | 06:39 pm
I was working on a screen scrapping project, and was looking for away to automate the login form for an ASP.NET web page. Googling around, I found a very helpful article written by Scott Allen that li...
Html screen scraping with HtmlAgilityPack Library fairnet.com 30 Aug 2010 | 03:15 pm
What is Screen Scraping ? Screen scraping is a process that reads any webpage and extract data from html tags. In this article, i will examine how to scrape a given web page using htmlagilitypack li...
UTF-8 and html screen scraping in Ruby on Rails quarkruby.com 23 Sep 2009 | 04:18 am
Before I start, if you have any doubts or you are unaware about character sets (i.e. you are not familiar with words like utf-8, unicode etc), I would recommend you to read Joel's The Absolute Minimum...
PHP Screen Scraping Class bradino.com 31 Jul 2009 | 01:04 pm
After some positive feedback I have decided to continue to develop the PHP Screen Scraping class. This post will server as the permanent home for the class. Download PHP Screen Scraping Class Update...
Screen Scraping Twitter bradino.com 29 Mar 2009 | 04:20 am
I got an email today asking for help to scrape Twitter. In particular, to be able to login. So I am going to show everyone, NOT to encourage anyone to violate Twitters terms of use but as an education...
