Announcing the Future Launch of the “SpyderSchool”

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 [...]

Scraping Web Pages with cURL Tutorial – Part 2

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 [...]

Scraping Web Pages with cURL Tutorial- Part 1

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 [...]

The WebSpyder School….

A Course on How to Scrape the Internet…Who is Interested??

This blog has really changed since the time I started it earlier this year. I am still working on my SEO empire and it is starting to pay off, but the majority of the traffic coming to this blog are people who are interested in [...]

Web Page Scraping …. A How To!

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, [...]

Let The Building Begin – Database Sites Pt 1

According to Eli’s blog on creating a SEO Empire we want to create a large number of pages from which we can link to our other sites (sites highly optimized to make money) later on to achieve a high position in the SERPS. And one of the best ways to do that is create [...]