Spindering Hacks

100 Industrial-strength Tips & Tools

Kevin Hemenway, Tara Calishain

406 pages, parution le 04/12/2003

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Résumé

The Internet, with its profusion of information, has made us hungry for ever more, ever better data. Out of necessity, many of us have become pretty adept with search engine queries, but there are times when even the most powerful search engines aren't enough. If you've ever wanted your data in a different form than it's presented, or wanted to collect data from several sites and see it side-by-side without the constraints of a browser, then Spidering Hacks is for you.

Spidering Hacks takes you to the next level in Internet data retrieval--beyond search engines--by showing you how to create spiders and bots to retrieve information from your favorite sites and data sources. You'll no longer feel constrained by the way host sites think you want to see their data presented--you'll learn how to scrape and repurpose raw data so you can view in a way that's meaningful to you.

Written for developers, researchers, technical assistants, librarians, and power users, Spidering Hacks provides expert tips on spidering and scraping methodologies. You'll begin with a crash course in spidering concepts, tools (Perl, LWP, out-of-the-box utilities), and ethics (how to know when you've gone too far: what's acceptable and unacceptable). Next, you'll collect media files and data from databases. Then you'll learn how to interpret and understand the data, repurpose it for use in other applications, and even build authorized interfaces to integrate the data into your own content. By the time you finish Spidering Hacks, you'll be able to:

Aggregate and associate data from disparate locations, then store and manipulate the data as you like
Gain a competitive edge in business by knowing when competitors' products are on sale, and comparing sales ranks and product placement on e-commerce sites
Integrate third-party data into your own applications or web sites
Make your own site easier to scrape and more usable to others
Keep up-to-date with your favorite comics strips, news stories, stock tips, and more without visiting the site every day

Like the other books in O'Reilly's popular Hacks series, Spidering Hacks brings you 100 industrial-strength tips and tools from the experts to help you master this technology. If you're interested in data retrieval of any type, this book provides a wealth of data for finding a wealth of data.

Preface
Walking Softly
Assembling a Toolbox
Collecting Media Files
Gleaning Data from Databases
Maintaining Your Collections
Giving Back to the World
Index

L'auteur - Kevin Hemenway

Kevin Hemenway, coauthor of Mac OS X Hacks, is better known as Morbus Iff, the creator of disobey.com, which bills itself as "content for the discontented." Publisher and developer of more home cooking than you could ever imagine, he'd love to give you a Fry Pan of Intellect upside the head. Politely, of course. And with love.

L'auteur - Tara Calishain

Tara Calishain a déjà écrit une douzaine d'ouvrages sur Internet. Elle est l'éditorialiste de la lettre d'informations hebdomadaire ResearchBuzz et s'implique de façon générale dans (les sites consacrés à la recherche sur le Web.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	O'Reilly
Auteur(s)	Kevin Hemenway, Tara Calishain
Parution	04/12/2003
Nb. de pages	406
Format	15 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	590g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780596005771
ISBN13	978-0-596-00577-1