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 [...]
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In my last post, Building A Web Spider – Part 1, I covered how to analyze a website so that you can build a very simple web spider to collect the data that you want, and then I showed you how to use PHP to download that page to your server. In [...]
Filed under: Automation, General Discussion, SEO Tools, Web Page Scraping | Tagged: HTML, PHP, preg match, regular expressions, web crawler, web page download, web site scraping, web spider | 24 Comments »
Whether you want to gather data for a database web site, or determine which links are broken in your site a web spider is a great tool for getting repetitive tasks done. Scraping web pages from the internet is a great way to gather content and ideas for web sites that you want to [...]
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