OReilly - Spidering Hacks - Download ebook

There comes a time when surfing just isn't enough. It may be that you get sick of checking the Amazon rank of your favourite book, or you find a stash of images or media files that you want to download or maybe you find yourself endlessly cycling through the same set of sites day in a day out looking for specific pieces of data (stock prices, weather reports, news items, knitting patterns …). When that day dawns then that's when you start looking seriously at the different spidering options that are available to do away with the drudgery or to expand your reach. It should also be a day when you reach for 'Spidering Hacks', particularly if you're a Perl user or are prepared to dive in and learn.
As already mentioned, the hacks in this book mostly use Perl, though scattered here and there you'll find some Java, Python and PHP. If you really hate Perl, then this is not the place for you. On the other hand the authors assume only a rudimentary knowledge of Perl, and there is no requirement for any knowledge of network programming of any description. After the opening chapter which gives guidance of being a going spidering citizen (i.e. how to respect the sites you are sucking data from), there is a second chapter which details how to create a spidering toolkit (i.e. how to find and install the site of modules that many of the hacks depend on).
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Book info: Spidering Hacks By Tara Calishain, Kevin Hemenway O'Reilly Publications ebook format: CHM ISBN-10: 0-596-00577-6

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