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• Webscraping Google tasks via Google Calendar

  - by ideotop

  As gmail and the task api is not available everywhere (eg: some companies block gmail but not calendar), is there a way to scrap google task through the calendar web interface ? The solution can be to use jQuery/Jaxer or a pointer to a browser script/plugin.

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• R webscraping: interrogating for date and importance

  - by adam.888

  I am able to webscrape a table from a webpage containing news library(XML) webpage <- "http://www.tradingeconomics.com/calendar" tables <- readHTMLTable(webpage ) n.rows <- unlist(lapply(tables, function(t) dim(t)[1])) dfcal <- as.data.frame(tables$calendar) However I do not know how to interrogate for date or for importance. For…

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• How can I use R (Rcurl/XML packages ?!) to scrap this webpage ?

  - by Tal Galili

  Hi all, I have a (somewhat complex) webscraping challenge that I wish to accomplish and would love for some direction (to whatever level you feel like sharing) here goes: I would like to go through all the "species pages" present in this link: http://gtrnadb.ucsc.edu/ So for each of them I will go to: The species page link (for example:…

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• HTML Agility Pack Screen Scraping XPATH isn't returning data

  - by Matthias Welsh

  I'm attempting to write a screen scraper for Digikey that will allow our company to keep accurate track of pricing, part availability and product replacements when a part is discontinued. There seems to be a discrepancy between the XPATH that I'm seeing in Chrome Devtools as well as Firebug on Firefox and what my C# program is seeing. The…

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• Is there a jQuery webscraper out there?

  - by victor hugo

  I'm trying to pullout some info from an external site using jQuery and Adobe AIR. Right now I'm using a hidden div and jQuery's load function to load fragments of the external site, once the info is loaded I parse some info with selectors. This is fine but it's kinda dirty and I need to perform this several times (don't want to need many…

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• Source for Names to use in web scraping

  - by PyNEwbie

  Can anyone suggest a good source of names that I can use to help analyze some tables on web pages. The first column of the tables I am scraping have names alone, names and titles or just titles. The names can be as varied as John Smith to Vikram Saksena. I have been poking around for a compiled list of words that can be found in proper…

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• What are the best measures to protect content from being crawled?

  - by Moak

  I've been crawling a lot of websites for content recently and am surprised how no site so far was able to put up much resistance. Ideally the site I'm working on should not be able to be harvested so easily. So I was wondering what are the best methods to stop bots from harvesting your web content. Obvious solutions: Robots.txt (yea…

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• Web scraping with Python

  - by Jack

  I'm currently trying to scrape a website that has fairly poorly-formatted HTML (often missing closing tags, no use of classes or ids so it's incredibly difficult to go straight to the element you want, etc.). I've been using BeautifulSoup with some success so far but every once and a while (though quite rarely), I run into a page…

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• Web scraping with Python

  - by Jack

  I'm currently trying to scrape a website that has fairly poorly-formatted HTML (often missing closing tags, no use of classes or ids so it's incredibly difficult to go straight to the element you want, etc.). I've been using BeautifulSoup with some success so far but every once and a while (though quite rarely), I run into a page…

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• Scraping *.aspx content using Python

  - by tomato

  I'm having difficulties scraping dynamically generated table in ASPX. Trying to scrape the gas prices from a site like this GasPrices. I can extract all the information in the gas price table (address, time submitted etc.), except for the actual gas price. Is there a way I could scrape the gas prices? i.e. somehow get a text…

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• Scraping *.aspx content using Python

  - by tomato

  I'm having difficulties scrapping dynamically generated table in ASPX. Trying to scrap the gas prices from a site like these GasPrices. I can extract all the information in the gas price table (address, time submitted etc.), except for the actual gas price. Is there a way I could scrap the gas prices? i.e. somehow get a text…

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• Is there a jQuery webscrapper out there?

  - by victor hugo

  I'm trying to pullout some info from an external site using jQuery and Adobe AIR. Right now I'm using a hidden div and jQuery's load function to load fragments of the external site, once the info is loaded I parse some info with selectors. This is fine but it's kinda dirty and I need to perform this several times (don't want…

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• How to isolate a single element from a scraped web page in R

  - by PaulHurleyuk

  Hello, I'm trying to do soemone a favour, and it's a tad outside my comfort zone, so I'm stuck. I want to use R to scrape this page (http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/germany2006/results/matches/match=97410001/report.html ) and others, to get the goal scorers and times. So far, this is what I've got require(RCurl)…

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• Facebook fan page photo's scraping

  - by Daan Poron

  Hi, We want to add a facebook fan page photo competition to our fan page. The meaning is that ppl can upload photo's and others can like them. The person with the most likes on his photo wins a price. Now i was wondering if anyone knows a good idea on how to get a snapshot of all the photo's on a given moment. So that…

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• Programmatically Submit form and loop through paging (C#.NET)

  - by Mikos

  I need to write a custom web-scraper to mine some data. ?I know how to submit a form using HttpWebRequest class Post method. My challenge is to loop through the resulting pages and retrieve the records from each page. Does anyone have a code sample or article to point to? Thanks

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• Problem pulling data from website in .NET and C#

  - by Cptcecil

  I have written a web scraping program to go to a list of pages and write all the html to a file. The problem is that when I pull a block of text some of the characters get written as '?'. How do I pull those characters into my text file? Here is my code: string baseUri =…

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• Yahoo Web Scrapes: What are the limits?

  - by bvandrunen

  We are using a web scraper and have it set up to have a sleep function which has a random function set up (so that it isn't the same time between each scrape) but we are still getting blocked from Yahoo after 20-30 requests. Does any one know if there is a limit (i.e: 20…

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• Web scraping advice/help with java for android app!

  - by Capsud

  Hey there, I've heard about web scraping software that can take data from a webpage. i'm building an android app and I want to take information from this site www.menupages.ie All I need is the names of the restaurants, and typing them in myself would be very tedious. …

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• How to use a loop to download HTML with paging?

  - by Nai

  I want to loop through this URL and download the HTML. https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?key=AIzaSyAAoPQprb6aAV-AfuVjoCdErKTiJHn-4uI&cx=017576662512468239146:omuauf_lfve&q=" + searchTermFormat + "&num=10" +"&start=" + i start and num controls…

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• Writing a program to scrape forums

  - by seanieb

  Hi, I need to write a program to scrape forums. Should I write the program in Python using the Scrapy framework or should I use Php cURL? Also is there a Php equivalent to Scrapy? Thanks

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• What's the fastest way to scrape a lot of pages in php?

  - by Yegor

  I have a data aggregator that relies on scraping several sites, and indexing their information in a way that is searchable to the user. I need to be able to scrape a vast number of pages, daily, and I have ran into problems using simple curl requests, that are fairly…

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• How to display html formatted text in text area of java application?

  - by Deepak

  I am scrapping data from web site using my java application and want to display the result after parsing code of html page in a Text Area made in Swing. Text like: hello <b>every</b>one should be displayed as: 'hello everyone' in text area. Thanks!!

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• how to find what isbns are in use

  - by Richard

  I am trying to find a list of what ISBNs are in use. I guess I could scrape a website like Amazon but that would waste a lot of bandwidth. Is there a better (free) way?

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• Extract Data from a Website using PHP

  - by 01jayss

  I am trying to get PHP to extract the TOKEN (the uppercase one), USERID (uppercase), and the USER NAME (uppercase) from a web page with the following text. {"rsp":{"stat":"ok","auth":{"token":"**TOKEN**","perms":"read","user":{"id":"**USERID**","username":"**USER…

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• Scrapping *.aspx content using Python

  - by tomato

  I'm having difficulties scrapping dynamically generated table in ASPX. Trying to scrap the gas prices from a site like these GasPrices. I can extract all the information in the gas price table (address, time submitted etc.), except for the actual gas price. Is…

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