Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers, 2nd Edition

Praise

“Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers is well-written and easy to read. Schrenk will encourage you to look at the web as a data resource and inspire you to write useful code which saves time and money”
—Craig Buckler, SitePoint

“This book is a great resource for those looking to move beyond the Internet browser with automated solutions for collecting and using data. It should prove to stimulate your imagination with the possibilities of what can be done.”
—iComputebetter.com

“There are certainly many ways that a web developer can learn to code webbots and spiders, but one would be hard pressed to find a better starting point than reading Schrenk’s second edition. The text and its associated code library lay an excellent foundation from which almost no webbot project is out of reach.”
—Ecommerce Developer

“Overall the book is interesting and readable, and the code is straightforward and easy to follow even for those without a solid grounding in PHP.”
—TechBookReport

“This book is one of the few that attempts to gather together the range of techniques that you need to write programs that work with web sites intended to be used by humans.”
—I Programmer

“Overall, I found this a very clear, very readable, and thorough presentation of the topic. Given that this is the second edition of this volume, others before have realized that Schrenk has written probably the definitive introduction to this topic and made the whole field of crawlers, spiders, and bots an approachable and interesting area to explore. Highly recommended.”
—Andrew Binstock, Dr. Dobbs