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Web Scraping with Java and HtmlUnit

java-htmlunit-post-front-cover-smallWeb scraping or crawling is the act of fetching data from a third party website by downloading and parsing the HTML code to extract the data you want. It can be done manually, but generally this term refers to the automated process of downloading the HTML content of a page, parsing/extracting the data, and saving it into a database for further analysis or use.

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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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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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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.