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Hi all, I need to do some screen scraping from my rails app. Given an ethernet (MAC) adress, I scrape results from an internal web page that returns location and hostname. How can I cache the result from that screen scraping as to be polite to the scrapee? I would like to expire the results daily. In perl, I would use Cache::File. Can...

Hello all, I have a screen scraping application (go to a lots of sites, extract 10k stuff, integrate the results, put them to DB etc). Now i want to use a Rails application as a frontend to this: The user can push a button which triggers the screen scraping app and view the results (preferably asynchronously, but that does not really...

Hi, I''m doing one module in my site, there I need to import user blog into my site. I can use RSS feeds to read the blog information but using RSS feeds I''m not getting entire information. So, I need to scrape the user blog page. How to scrape a pages without knowing its html structure of a page? Please anyone can help me for this issue. Thanks in advance. -- You received this

Hi there Does anyone know if Amazon.com has any sort of server side script that tries to block scraping activities? I first noticed that if I didn?t change the agent alias, it would fetch a page exactly like the normal one, but without the intial search field(maybe a silly way to prevent scraping). Then after it, I changed to some other alias, and submit a search. I got the result page as response,...

Hi List, I am trying to leverage my knowledge of R in trying to use it for tasks that may not make R the best choice for these tasks. I wish to automate a web scraping task, which requires a multi-step procedure: 1) log in to a website 2) Go to a particular page 3) From the drop down menu, click on a particular link 4) From the tabulated data presented, choose relevant information based on a filter on the date column. I am not highly acquainted with RCurl or CUR...

I am web scraping a page at http://catalog.ihsn.org/index.php/catalog#_r=&collection=&country=&dtype=&from=1890&page=1&ps=100&sid=&sk=&sort_by=nation&sort_order=&to=2017&topic=&view=s&vk= From this url, I have built up a dataframe through the following code:...

On a relatively new Nagios 2.x / CentOS 4.x server (only like a week old), I am experiencing gd(-devel/-progs) problems and am wondering if I should just scrape and rebuild. Here is my situation: I installed LAMP+Nagios+NagiosQL and was going to install PerfParse so that I could have trending info integrated with Nagios. The configure script would run ok, but would crap out on make &&

Hi there Does anyone know if Amazon.com has any sort of server side script that tries to block scraping activities? I first noticed that if I didn?t change the agent alias, it would fetch a page exactly like the normal one, but without the intial search field(maybe a silly way to prevent scraping). Then after it, I changed to some other alias, and submit a search. I got the result page as response,...

...g some website data to build a database. Under most cases, I can use package XML to get the dataset. However, some of the website doesn't give a explicit address of the downloaded tables. To be more specific, for example, I'm interested in the website http://ets.aeso.ca/ The data we are scraping is the "Pool Weekly Summary" under the category of "Historical". However, after clicking "historical" and choose the "Pool Weekly Summary" item on the website, the address is always http://ets.aeso.ca/ and doesn't change. In this case, I guess I need...

...n completed. We are trying to finish up with fetching contacts from AOL Webmail. However its a bit more difficult because of the javascript-like validation AOL has built into their sign-in service. The only resource I''ve found that talks about the correct strategy to sign-in to AOL via a scraping tool is here: http://apsquared.net/blog/2007/04/30/scraping-aol-webmail-for-contacts/ However we''ve not been able to recreate their experience with mechanize. Any suggestions or experience would be appreciated. Blackbook will be released onto rubyforge once we''ve completed AOL W...

I am doing a research on World Bank (WB) projects on developing countries. To do so, I am scraping their website in order to collect the data I am interested in. The structure of the webpage I want to scrape is the following: 1. List of countries the list of all countries in which WB has developed projects<http://projects.worldbank.org/country?lang=en&page=> 1.1. By clicking on a...

Dear R Users, I am pleased to announce that Goodreader 0.1.1 is now available on CRAN. Goodreader offers a toolkit for scraping and analyzing book data from Goodreads. Users can search for books, scrape detailed information and reviews, perform sentiment analysis on reviews, and conduct topic modeling. Here?s a quick overview of how to use Goodreader: # Search for books AI_df <- search_goodreads(search_term = "arti...

Dear R Users, I am pleased to announce that Goodreader 0.1.1 is now available on CRAN. Goodreader offers a toolkit for scraping and analyzing book data from Goodreads. Users can search for books, scrape detailed information and reviews, perform sentiment analysis on reviews, and conduct topic modeling. Here?s a quick overview of how to use Goodreader: # Search for books AI_df <- search_goodreads(search_term = "arti...

Hello, I am looking to scrape this Webpage: http://toast.gasunie.de/gud/search.aspx?soid=GUD&lang=de The page uses the method "POST", it contains various HTML Forms, mostly lists and a couple of radio buttons. After submit, I should get forwarded to a new page. Which selections are being made in the forms does not really matter, I get quite far, pls see the code: library(RCurl)

Hi all, I am scraping a table off of another site and inserting it onto my site. you can see an example on the initial page at: http://mthosts.heroku.com. I''m referring to the green box with the snowbird weather and snowfall information. this box has been scraped off of the snowbird site at: http://www.snowb...

Folks, I want to scrape a series of web-page sources for strings like the following: "/en/Ships/A-8605507.html" "/en/Ships/Aalborg-8122830.html" which appear in an href inside an <a> tag inside a <div> tag inside a table. In fact all I want is the (exactly) 7-digit number before ".html". The good news is that as far as I can tell the the <a>

Forgive me if this has been addressed somewhere, but I have searched and can''t come up with anything. I am basically trying to distribute several web page scraping tasks among different threads, and have the results from each added to an Array which is ultimately returned by the backgroundrb worker. Here is an example of what I''m trying to do in a worker method: pages = Array.new pages_to_scrape.each do |url| thread_pool.defer(...

Hi, I''m working to scrape and save some ebooks. Mechanize has been wonderful so far. The link I''m having trouble with is this one. http://www.webscription.net/SendZip.aspx?SKU=0671578499&ProductID=379&format=H When I click that in the browser it saves it to a file named H_1632.zip. How do I get that name from the page. I suspect to save this to a file I would just do

Hi everyone, I was trying to discover some new plugins, but the script breaks at a certain point: $ ./script/plugin discover Add http://delynnberry.com/svn/code/rails/plugins/? [Y/n] Add http://svn.recentrambles.com/plugins/? [Y/n] Add http://svn.hasmanythrough.com/public/plugins/? [Y/n] Add http://www.svn.recentrambles.com/plugins/? [Y/n] Add http://sean.treadway.info/svn/plugins/? [Y/n] Add

The results of a security experiment were published this week, in which an Asterisk PBX was set out in the wild to see who would attack it and how: http://www.telium.ca/?honeypot1 What I find particularly interesting is that people/bots are scraping support websites looking for valid IP's of PBX's, and valid credentials! A good reminder to everyone on this list to not publish the IP of their PBX's, or even account names (in postings) as they will be quickly targeted.... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment...