Re: PHP Data Mining/Data Scraping
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Thu, 24 May 2007 23:49:51 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP Data Mining/Data Scraping | ||
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On Wed, May 23, 2007 5:25 am, Shannon Whitty wrote:
> THanks,
>
> I will have far to much data to append to a GET request so a POST is
> the
> best option I think.
Also consider RSS, REST, RPC and SOAP as long-term solutions with
increasing overhead/functionality.
These have the advantage of having standards and tons of toolkits
around instead of a custom-brewed client-server hack you may come up
with.
This all presumes you have control over the "success" outputting
server...
If not, you're stuck with scraping what they send, unless they offer
RSS, REST, RPC or SOAP.
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