[Gllug] extracting data from specific sites

Nevzat Hami nevzathami at gmail.com
Mon Dec 17 03:07:52 UTC 2007


i want to get some contents from specific sites, and use this contents in
our site which we are developing.

nevz@

On Dec 17, 2007 3:00 AM, Andy Farnsworth <farnsaw at stonedoor.com> wrote:

> Unless the site provides a specific feed (RSS, Atom, or some other
> standard or proprietary format) what you are trying to do is called
> screen scraping and will probably break each and every time the site you
> are scraping changes.  You can use Perl and the LWP perl module to do
> this.  If it is for personal work, then that is ok, but if you are doing
> this professionally, it would be better to contact the site / company
> and arrange a data feed.
>
> What are you trying to accomplish?
>
> Andrew
>
> Nevzat Hami wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > i want to extract specific content from specific sites.
> >
> >  Is it possible to do this with any program? or any ideas how to do it?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > nevz@
>
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