Spidering Hacks Contributor(s): Hemenway, Kevin (Author), Calishain, Tara (Author) |
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ISBN: 0596005776 ISBN-13: 9780596005771 Publisher: O'Reilly Media OUR PRICE: $26.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2003 Annotation: With this crash course in spidering concepts, tools (Perl, LWP, out-of-the-box utilities), and ethics (how to know when one has gone too far: what's acceptable and unacceptable), readers learn how to collect media files and data from databases; how to interpret and understand the data and repurpose it for use in other applications; and even build authorized interfaces to integrate the data into their own content. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Computers | Programming Languages - General - Computers | Databases - Data Mining - Computers | Internet - General |
Dewey: 006.3 |
Physical Information: 0.97" H x 6.02" W x 9.18" (1.28 lbs) 402 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The Internet, with its profusion of information, has made us hungry for ever more, ever better data. Out of necessity, many of us have become pretty adept with search engine queries, but there are times when even the most powerful search engines aren't enough. If you've ever wanted your data in a different form than it's presented, or wanted to collect data from several sites and see it side-by-side without the constraints of a browser, then Spidering Hacks is for you.Spidering Hacks takes you to the next level in Internet data retrieval--beyond search engines--by showing you how to create spiders and bots to retrieve information from your favorite sites and data sources. You'll no longer feel constrained by the way host sites think you want to see their data presented--you'll learn how to scrape and repurpose raw data so you can view in a way that's meaningful to you.Written for developers, researchers, technical assistants, librarians, and power users, Spidering Hacks provides expert tips on spidering and scraping methodologies. You'll begin with a crash course in spidering concepts, tools (Perl, LWP, out-of-the-box utilities), and ethics (how to know when you've gone too far: what's acceptable and unacceptable). Next, you'll collect media files and data from databases. Then you'll learn how to interpret and understand the data, repurpose it for use in other applications, and even build authorized interfaces to integrate the data into your own content. By the time you finish Spidering Hacks, you'll be able to:
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Contributor Bio(s): Calishain, Tara: - Tara Calishain is the creator of the site, ResearchBuzz. She is an expert on Internet search engines and how they can be used effectively in business situations. Iff, Morbus: -Kevin Hemenway, coauthor of Mac OS X Hacks, is better known as Morbus Iff, the creator of disobey.com, which bills itself as "content for the discontented." Publisher and developer of more home cooking than you could ever imagine, he'd love to give you a Fry Pan of Intellect upside the head. Politely, of course. And with love. |