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Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers: A Guide to Developing Internet Agents with PHP/CURL
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
306 pages, Paperback
First published March 30, 2007
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September 16, 2019
When I approached this book I had quite high expectations, because I had read books from this publishing house before. And... I am a bit disappointed. On the one hand, a book gives an inexperienced reader a lot of ideas, but it presents and implements them not through "teaching" and "explaining" things, but like it was an advertisement for the author's written libraries. When started reading, I was hoping to learn something about CURL and here I was very disappointed because there was not much about it throughout the book - actually I could read Appendix A and finish reading it there. Nevertheless, I will write again: the book gives many examples, ideas and advices for beginners. Finally, I know that I shouldn't expect much from a book from a few years ago (I read the 2012 version), but a lot of things presented in the book are no longer up to date, so if you want to learn something, it's worth looking for newer books.
February 27, 2025
A Great Resource for Web Developers to learn how to build PHP-based webbots and Web scrapers. Amazing reference litterature for this. A definite Must-read and Bible to any good web developers library and arsenal. Great segway for getting one step closer to creating more automation to save time and money for businesses as well.
May 7, 2008
Great book!
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