Webbots, spiders, and screen scrapers : a guide to developing internet agents with PHP/CURL, 2nd edition/ [electronic resource] /
Michael Schrenk.
- No Starch Press, Inc., 2012.
- 396 p.
Introduction. Chapter, Lesson, Part Part I: Fundamental Concepts and Techniques. Chapter, Lesson, Part 1. What's in It for You?. Chapter, Lesson, Part 2. Ideas for Webbot Projects. Chapter, Lesson, Part 3. Downloading Web Pages. Chapter, Lesson, Part 4. Basic Parsing Techniques. Chapter, Lesson, Part 5. Advanced Parsing with Regular Expressions. Chapter, Lesson, Part 6. Automating Form Submission. Chapter, Lesson, Part 7. Managing Large Amounts of Data. Chapter, Lesson, Part Part II: Projects. Chapter, Lesson, Part 8. Price-Monitoring Webbots. Chapter, Lesson, Part 9. Image-Capturing Webbots. Chapter, Lesson, Part 10. Link-Verification Webbots. Chapter, Lesson, Part 11. Search-Ranking Webbots. Chapter, Lesson, Part 12. Aggregation Webbots. Chapter, Lesson, Part 13. FTP Webbots. Chapter, Lesson, Part 14. Webbots That Read Email. Chapter, Lesson, Part 15. Webbots That Send Email. Chapter, Lesson, Part 16. Converting a Website into a Function. Chapter, Lesson, Part Part III: Advanced Technical Considerations. Chapter, Lesson, Part 17. Spiders. Chapter, Lesson, Part 18. Procurement Webbots and Snipers. Chapter, Lesson, Part 19. Webbots and Cryptography. Chapter, Lesson, Part 20. Authentication. Chapter, Lesson, Part 21. Advanced Cookie Management. Chapter, Lesson, Part 22. Scheduling Webbots and Spiders. Chapter, Lesson, Part 23. Scraping Difficult Websites with Browser Macros. Chapter, Lesson, Part 24. Hacking iMacros. Chapter, Lesson, Part 25. Deployment and Scaling. Chapter, Lesson, Part Part IV: Larger Considerations. Chapter, Lesson, Part 26. Designing Stealthy Webbots and Spiders. Chapter, Lesson, Part 27. Proxies. Chapter, Lesson, Part 28. Writing Fault-Tolerant Webbots. Chapter, Lesson, Part 29. Designing Webbot-Friendly Websites. Chapter, Lesson, Part 30. Killing Spiders. Chapter, Lesson, Part 31. Keeping Webbots out of Trouble. Chapter, Lesson, Part Cover, Title,Webbots, spiders, and screen scrapers : a guide to developing internet agents with PHP/CURL, 2nd edition--Preface, Introduction, TOC,Brief Contents--Preface, Introduction, TOC,Contents in Detail--Preface, Introduction, TOC,About the Author; About the Technical Reviewer--Preface, Introduction, TOC,Acknowledgements--References, Appendix, Index,Appendix A: PHP/CURL Reference--References, Appendix, Index,Appendix B: Status Codes--References, Appendix, Index,Appendix C: SMS Gateways--References, Appendix, Index,Index.