How To Build A Basic Web Crawler To Pull Information From A Website (Part 1) - 0 views
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Gordon Hall on 18 Sep 13This a great website not only describing how web crawlers work, but how you can create on your own. Descriptions and pictures really help to create one if your stuck too.
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Amanda French on 18 Sep 13That is a good tutorial -- thanks, Gordon. My own PHP skills are good enough to build this, though at the moment I don't need to. I had forgotten the synonym "scrapers," too. Useful quotation: "One typical task that Google performs is to pull all the links from a page and see which sites they are endorsing."