Webbots, spiders, and screen scrapers

Name: Webbots, spiders, and screen scrapers
ISBN: 9781593271206

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patrickk · Nov 8, 2010 · Recommends

In the book "Webbots, Spiders and Screen Scrapers" by Michael Schrenk, there's a topic that deals with automatic procurement and 'sniping' for those who are interested in reading further. See #19 on the section list for a description: http://www.schrenk.com/nostarch/webbots/DSP_inside.php…
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SageRaven · Nov 9, 2010 · Mentions

…out. I've been writing modest little web bots/crawlers in shell script for quite a few years now. I think it was a comment on HN just yesterday that prompted an impulse purchase of Michael Schrenk's Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers (ebooks at nostarch.com currently 1/2 the dead-tree version price). Even though I knew the platform going in (PHP w/ the CURL lib), at every page I can't help but gasp at what an awkward platform this…
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