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Table of content
Spidering Hacks
Authors:
Hemenway K.
,
Calishain T.
Published year: 2005
Pages: 1/157
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Main Page
Main Page
Table of content
Copyright
Credits
About the Authors
Contributors
Preface
Why Spidering Hacks?
How This Book Is Organized
How to Use This Book
Conventions Used in This Book
How to Contact Us
Got a Hack?
Chapter 1. Walking Softly
Hacks 1-7
Hack 1 A Crash Course in Spidering and Scraping
Hack 2 Best Practices for You and Your Spider
Hack 3 Anatomy of an HTML Page
Hack 4 Registering Your Spider
Hack 5 Preempting Discovery
Hack 6 Keeping Your Spider Out of Sticky Situations
Hack 7 Finding the Patterns of Identifiers
Chapter 2. Assembling a Toolbox
Hacks 8-32
Perl Modules
Resources You May Find Helpful
Hack 8 Installing Perl Modules
Hack 9 Simply Fetching with LWP::Simple
Hack 10 More Involved Requests with LWP::UserAgent
Hack 11 Adding HTTP Headers to Your Request
Hack 12 Posting Form Data with LWP
Hack 13 Authentication, Cookies, and Proxies
Hack 14 Handling Relative and Absolute URLs
Hack 15 Secured Access and Browser Attributes
Hack 16 Respecting Your Scrapee s Bandwidth
Hack 17 Respecting robots.txt
Hack 18 Adding Progress Bars to Your Scripts
Hack 19 Scraping with HTML::TreeBuilder
Hack 20 Parsing with HTML::TokeParser
Hack 21 WWW::Mechanize 101
Hack 22 Scraping with WWW::Mechanize
Hack 23 In Praise of Regular Expressions
Hack 24 Painless RSS with Template::Extract
Hack 25 A Quick Introduction to XPath
Hack 26 Downloading with curl and wget
Hack 27 More Advanced wget Techniques
Hack 28 Using Pipes to Chain Commands
Hack 29 Running Multiple Utilities at Once
Hack 30 Utilizing the Web Scraping Proxy
Hack 31 Being Warned When Things Go Wrong
Hack 32 Being Adaptive to Site Redesigns
Chapter 3. Collecting Media Files
Hacks 33-42
Hack 33 Detective Case Study: Newgrounds
Hack 34 Detective Case Study: iFilm
Hack 35 Downloading Movies from the Library of Congress
Hack 36 Downloading Images from Webshots
Hack 37 Downloading Comics with dailystrips
Hack 38 Archiving Your Favorite Webcams
Hack 39 News Wallpaper for Your Site
Hack 40 Saving Only POP3 Email Attachments
Hack 41 Downloading MP3s from a Playlist
Hack 42 Downloading from Usenet with nget
Chapter 4. Gleaning Data from Databases
Hacks 43-89
Hack 43 Archiving Yahoo Groups Messages with yahoo2mbox
Hack 44 Archiving Yahoo Groups Messages with WWW::Yahoo::Groups
Hack 45 Gleaning Buzz from Yahoo
Hack 46 Spidering the Yahoo Catalog
Hack 47 Tracking Additions to Yahoo
Hack 48 Scattersearch with Yahoo and Google
Hack 49 Yahoo Directory Mindshare in Google
Hack 50 Weblog-Free Google Results
Hack 51 Spidering, Google, and Multiple Domains
Hack 52 Scraping Amazon.com Product Reviews
Hack 53 Receive an Email Alert for Newly Added Amazon.com Reviews
Hack 54 Scraping Amazon.com Customer Advice
Hack 55 Publishing Amazon.com Associates Statistics
Hack 56 Sorting Amazon.com Recommendations by Rating
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Spidering Hacks
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Hemenway K.
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Calishain T.
Published year: 2005
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