Re: creation of a robot
| From: | Manuel Lemos | Date: | Wed, 11 Jun 2003 08:13:09 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: creation of a robot | ||
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Hello,
On 06/11/2003 04:28 AM, Adrian Teasdale wrote:
We have a requirement to create a robot to search for specific keywords on the web. Has anyone done this before and have any suggestions as to where we should start? I don't think that this is a light undertaking! :) Are there any existing tools out there which can be plugged in to do this?You may want to start using this class for HTTP access. It submits forms and takes care of cookies. http://www.phpclasses.org/httpclient Then just use regular expressions to extract content. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/