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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.

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SQL Dump Splitter

This nice free program saved my day when I had to transfer a big database from one MySql Server to another. If you need to restore a big database using phpMyAdmin you will find it usefull as well.

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Using Regex Lookaround for HTML element extraction

Yes, I’m aware that using regex for HTML parsing is not the best idea. But still when I need to quickly extract some small portion of a web page I find myself applying regex more often than executing an XPath query, and its lookahead and lookbehind constructions may be quite helpful.

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5 Best XPath Cheat Sheets and Quick References

XPath Cheat Sheets I always love a good cheat sheet hanging on my corkboard when I’m working, and XPath is one of the fields where I often refer to it. If you’re looking for a good XPath cheat sheet you will probably find something useful in this post.

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XPath in Examples

Here we’ll show how XPath works. Let’s take the following XML as a lab rat.