Posted on August 13, 2008 by spyderwebtech
In Scraping Web Pages with cURL Tutorial – Part 1, I demonstrated how to create a web spider class that uses the cURL library to transfer any type of data from the web direct to your server.
In this tutorial we are going to talk about how to parse that data into some sort of usable [...]
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Posted on August 8, 2008 by spyderwebtech
In my last post, Scraping Web Pages with cURL, I talked about what the cURL library can bring to the table and how we can use this library to create our own web spider class in PHP.
What I want to do in this tutorial is to show you how to use the cURL library to [...]
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Posted on August 7, 2008 by spyderwebtech
Web Page Scraping is a hot topic of discussion around the Internet as more and more people are looking to create applications that pull data in from many different data sources and websites.
In my other tutorials, I talked about using PHP’s file_get_contents function to pull a web page and download the information into a variable [...]
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Posted on November 27, 2007 by spyderwebtech
In my previous posts, I talk a lot about web site scraping to gather data from the web to create a database web site. The question in you may have in your mind is exactly how does one do this. The good news is that there are many ways to get this done, [...]
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Posted on November 26, 2007 by spyderwebtech
Holly smokes! What a productive week it has been for me on my SEO empire building journey!
This week I continued on with my experiment to use WordPress MU as a template engine. What I wanted to do is simply download a bunch of WordPress plugins to customize my sites for things such as [...]
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