[Gllug] extracting data from specific sites

[Caroline Ford]

If they want you to use their content they will provide a feed of some
sort.

Caroline

On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 03:07 +0000, Nevzat Hami wrote:
> 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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