No Starch Press Webbots Spiders and Screen Scrapers Mar 2007 eBook-BBL

Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers: A Guide to Developing Internet
Agents with PHP/CURL (c) by No Starch Press

The type of the release is: eBook
In the CHM format with ISBN: 1593271204 and Pub Date: March 30, 2007
The size of the release is: 02 disks x 1.44mb
And released on: 02/20/2008


The Internet is bigger and better than what a mere browser allows.
Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers is for programmers and
businesspeople who want to take full advantage of the vast resources
available on the Web. There's no reason to let browsers limit your
online experience-especially when you can easily automate online tasks
to suit your individual needs. Learn how to write webbots and spiders
that do all this and more:
- Programmatically download entire websites
- Effectively parse data from web pages
- Manage cookies
- Decode encrypted files
- Automate form submissions
- Send and receive email
- Send SMS alerts to your cell phone
- Unlock password-protected websites
- Automatically bid in online auctions
- Exchange data with FTP and NNTP servers Sample projects using
standard code libraries reinforce these new skills. You'll learn how to
create your own webbots and spiders that track online prices, aggregate
different data sources into a single web page, and archive the online
data you just can't live without. You'll learn inside information from
an experienced webbot developer on how and when to write stealthy
webbots that mimic human behavior, tips for developing fault-tolerant
designs, and various methods for launching and scheduling webbots.
You'll also get advice on how to write webbots and spiders that respect
website owner property rights, plus techniques for shielding websites
from unwanted robots. As a bonus, visit the author's website to test
your webbots on sample target pages, and to download the scripts and
code libraries used in the book. Some tasks are just too tedious-or too
important!- to leave to humans. Once you've automated your online life,
you'll never let a browser limit the way you use the Internet again.

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