Today I want to share with you how to make a web page to automatically scroll down. This is applicable in dealing with social networks pages, business directories (ex. yellow pages) and other auto-upload resources.
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Recently I came across an interesting new tool from TheWebMiner called Filter. The Filter is an attempt by TheWebMiner to sort (categorize) indexed websites and deliver them to users as a content filtering service.
Recently I was challenged to make a script that would authenticate through a bot-proof login from and redirect to a logged in page.
I want to share how I’ve done the audio captcha recognize-er. The audio captcha recognize-er was designed to solve captcha at xbox.com back in 2012.
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Web scraping with JavaScript
Is it possible to scrape an HTML page with JavaScript from inside of a web browser?
To be perfectly honest I wasn’t sure so I decided to try it out.
Full disclaimer here, I didn’t actually succeed. However, it was a great learning experience for me and I think you guys could benefit from seeing what I did and where I went wrong. Who knows, maybe you can take what I’ve done and figure it out for yourself!
I wanna provide you with a nice utility for quick summing of multiple DOM element values. Why? Well, suppose you’ve at a page like this and you want to sum up the total number of hotels in all the countries.
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How to parse messy encoded HTML
Let’s suppose you want to extract a price with a currency sign from a web page (eg. £220.00), but its HTML code is this:
which is obviously encoded HTML.
In this post, I’d like to demonstrate how to leverage the Dexi.io (CloudScrape) API along with its PHP Client library (also avail in Ruby and C#).
As web scraping is becoming easier to use, more and more people are able to leverage the world’s web resources. As this trend grows, structured data from the web empower businesses and enable a wave of new business ideas to become a reality. Now there is a new technology on the market called: “self-contained agents” that might just make this a tsunami!
Some of you may be wondering if it’s possible to extract a web browser’s local storage by web scraping?