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

Hack  57.   Related Amazon.com Products with Alexa

Hack  58.   Scraping Alexa's Competitive Data with Java

Hack  59.   Finding Album Information with FreeDB and Amazon.com

Hack  60.   Expanding Your Musical Tastes

Hack  61.   Saving Daily Horoscopes to Your iPod

Hack  62.   Graphing Data with RRDTOOL

Hack  63.   Stocking Up on Financial Quotes

Hack  64.   Super Author Searching

Hack  65.   Mapping O'Reilly Best Sellers to Library Popularity

Hack  66.   Using All Consuming to Get Book Lists

Hack  67.   Tracking Packages with FedEx

Hack  68.   Checking Blogs for New Comments

Hack  69.   Aggregating RSS and Posting Changes

Hack  70.   Using the Link Cosmos of Technorati

Hack  71.   Finding Related RSS Feeds

Hack  72.   Automatically Finding Blogs of Interest

Hack  73.   Scraping TV Listings

Hack  74.   What's Your Visitor's Weather Like?

Hack  75.   Trendspotting with Geotargeting

Hack  76.   Getting the Best Travel Route by Train

Hack  77.   Geographic Distance and Back Again

Hack  78.   Super Word Lookup

Hack  79.   Word Associations with Lexical Freenet

Hack  80.   Reformatting Bugtraq Reports

Hack  81.   Keeping Tabs on the Web via Email

Hack  82.   Publish IE's Favorites to Your Web Site

Hack  83.   Spidering GameStop.com Game Prices

Hack  84.   Bargain Hunting with PHP

Hack  85.   Aggregating Multiple Search Engine Results

Hack  86.   Robot Karaoke

Hack  87.   Searching the Better Business Bureau

Hack  88.   Searching for Health Inspections

Hack  89.   Filtering for the Naughties