Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers: A Guide to Developing Internet Agents with PHP/CURL
Date: 31 March 2011 | Posted by: bubbagump
Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers: A Guide to Developing Internet Agents with PHP/CURL
There's no reason to let browsers limit your online experience-especially when you can easily automate online tasks to suit your individual needs.
Learn how to write webbots and spiders that do all this and more:
Programmatically download entire websites Effectively parse data from web pages Manage cookies Decode encrypted files Automate form submissions Send and receive email Send SMS alerts to your cell phone Unlock password-protected websites Automatically bid in online auctions Exchange data with FTP and NNTP servers
NO MIRRORS
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