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A simple LinkedIn Group Submitter

LinkedInLinkedIn API doesn’t allow you to publish into groups if you are not their administrator. That was done in order to eliminate spamming, but if you are a member of several groups of a similar topic and you want to share some interesting information with all of those groups, you have to do it manually group by group and eventually it becomes tedious. In this post I’ll show you a simple way to automate this process in C# using Selenium WebDriver.

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Tutorial: How to use Headless Firefox for Scraping in Linux

I have already written several articles on how to use Selenium WebDriver for web scraping and all those examples were for Windows. But what about if you want to run your WebDriver-based scraper somewhere on a headless Linux server? For example on a Virtual Private Server with SSH-only access. Here I will show you how to do it in several simple steps.

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An Example of Captcha Solver in Java

java_captcha Recently I published an article on how to solve captcha in C# using DeathByCaptcha service, and I promised to offer you an example in other languages as well. In this post I’ll offer a Java project that does the same thing.

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How to improve your scraper with “Bypass CAPTCHA”

If you develop an application for web scraping then it would be really nice to upgrade it with automatic captcha recognition.  “Bypass CAPTCHA” service allows you to do this very easily since its focus is on use in third-party software. In this post I’ll show you how easy it is to extend your scraper using this service.

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How to Write a Captcha Solver that uses DeathByCaptcha service

Let’s look at a practical example on how to solve CAPTCHAs using the DeathByCaptcha service. This example is written in C#, but you can get it in Java as well.

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6 Tips for Using WebDriver with Java

In this article I’ll share with you 6 usefult tips that may help you when you work with Selenium WebDriver in Java.

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How to scrape Amazon with WebDriver in Java

Here is a real-world example of using Selenium WebDriver for scraping.

This short program is written in Java and scrapes book title and author from the Amazon webstore.

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How to use Selenium WebDriver with Java

As we already showed you the example of using WebDriver with C#,  in this post we will see how to extract web data using Selenium WebDriver with Java, the native language of Selenium WebDriver.

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CodeLobster PHP Edition – modern free PHP IDE

CodeLobster PHP EditionWhat do lobsters have to do with PHP? It’s simple. CodeLobster PHP Edition is one of the best modern professional instruments for advanced web-developers. It is equally convenient and useful for those who already have become a master or for those who are still learning to be.

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Example of Scraping with Selenium WebDriver in C#

In this article I will show you how it is easy to scrape a web site using Selenium WebDriver. I will guide you through a sample project which is written in C# and uses WebDriver in conjunction with the Chrome browser to login on the testing page and scrape the text from the private area of the website.