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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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