Announcing the Future Launch of the “SpyderSchool”

Coming Soon - SpyderSchool Launch

I want to thank everyone who left a comment, emailed me, and even took the time to track me down and give me a phone call about starting this project.  It seems as if there is a real need for this subject and to my knowledge there is yet to be a definitive source of web automation information on the net.

I am very happy to announce that I am going forward with the SpyderSchool, an online school on how to Automate the Internet.  The scheduled release is tentatively planned for June 1st, 2009.

This school will teach its members how to spider, scrape, mine data, and automate nearly any site or process on the net.  I will teach you how to do this in step-by-step videos, tutorials, and live seminars.

I am limiting the number of students that I will be accepting to the SpyderSchool for the first year to 250.  So if you are interested, please fill the form linked below as soon as possible.

Put me on the Waiting List for the SpyderSchool

The first 250 people who sign up will be contacted first, and the if there are still openings then I will continue down the list until all spots are filled.  Only then will I open up the enrollment, so don’t wait!  Even if you are only remotely interested, you had better sign-up.

In the SpyderSchool you will learn-by-doing with hands on examples, data-mining challenges, and competitions to test yours skills and hone your newly found techniques.  As you complete each challenge, you will be building a library of web scraping code that you can use for your future career in web automation as well as a portfolio to impress your future clients.

Don’t have any experience programming for the web?  No worries, the SpyderSchool is being built for the beginner.

In the SpyderSchool, you will learn:

1. How the Internet Works
2. What Types of Scraping Technologies Exist
3. How to Analyze a Web Site for Scraping
4. Basic/Advanced Web Spider Programming
5. What Tools to Use
6. How to Automate Your Web Hosting Accounts (Linux Servers)
7. How to Automate Forms
8. How to Automate AJAX Dynamic Content Sites
9. How to Beat Captcha
10. and Much, Much, More.

This course we be taught using only open-source technologies,  sorry Microsoft, so you won’t have to pay for one single solitary thing besides your tuition to the course.  There will be no up-sells, down-sells, cross-sells, or any other marketing pressure… guaranteed.  I hate that crap, nothing but learning here.

Be looking forward to more posts on the progress of the SpyderSchool.  And be sure to sign-up for more information at the following location:

Put me on the Waiting List for the SpyderSchool

You can also follow the progress of this school at my Twitter:

http://www.twitter.com/spyderwebtech

Thanks again for the huge amount of interest, and for those who took the time to encourage me to start this project.

–Spyderwebtech