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In this post we will deal with the most vital facts and the pros and cons concerning the HTTPS vs HTTP issue. Besides the security advantage, we will consider the main things that make a difference: caching, performance issue, virtual hosting issue and others.
This post is the continuation of the first post on HTTP, the hypertext web transfer protocol.
HTTP is a client-server text data transfer protocol being used in various applications.
In this post we share on json viewers both as online tools and as plugins for browsers and Notepad++ editor.
Suppose we want to set only one exception handler function for all exceptions in the scraper program. This exception handler might be working for a multi-level program. Here is how it works in PHP.
This short post in to guide you in how to scrape CSV data files.
Selenium is a web application testing framework that supports for a wide variety of browsers and platforms including Java, .Net, Ruby, Python and other. In this post we touch on the basic structure of the framework and how it can be applied in Web Scraping.
In this post, I’ll explain how to do a simple web page extraction in PHP using cURL, the ‘Client URL library’.
The curl is a part of libcurl, a library that allows you to connect to servers with many different types of protocols. It supports the http, https and other protocols. This way of getting data from web is more stable with header/cookie/errors process rather than using simple file_get_contents(). If curl() is not installed, you can read here for Win or here for Linux.
When I needed to extract dictionary words’ definitions I chose Python and lxml library. In this tutorial, I’ll review the steps of scraping Webster online dictionary using lxml in Python.