May 5, 2009, 17:27 by Tetraboy
Based on the webcast, this will be an interesting talk, and web scraping is a great uncon subject!
Web Scraping with PHP
Matthew Turland (May 21, 2009)
Talk at php|tek 2009 Unconference (English - US)
Though web services are becoming increasingly popular for exposing access to data, many service-oriented web sites still do not make their data available for consumption by automated agents. Alternative methods to interact with such sites are rarely documented and often not obvious to developers without a good working knowledge of multiple technologies that power the web today.
Web scraping is a collection of practices and techniques to simulate the behavior of a normal web site user in order to effectively use the web site itself as a web service. This can include both retrieving data made available by the site and well as introducing new data into the site. This presentation will define web scraping and showcase recommended practices and common issues and solutions.
Quicklink: http://joind.in/435
Comments
May 12, 2009, 02:20 by wadearnold
Hoping to learn best practices for all the fun needle in a haystack issues when trying to parse through pages that change.
May 12, 2009, 09:44 by DragonBe
After the podcast, webcast I now want to experience it live ... Looking forward to be web scraped by Matthew.
May 28, 2009, 14:01 by Anonymous
This. Was. Awesome!
If you missed it, you really missed out.
May 4, 2009, 16:03 by aaronmccall
I had to leave in the middle of the webcast so I am hoping to get the "rest of the story" at |tek.