O'Reilly - Spidering
Hacks. 13.12.2003




Spidering Hacks by Tara
Calishain, Kevin Hemenway ISBN:
0-596-00577-6, 424 Pages,
October 2003



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 repur-pose 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.





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