Michael Schrenk demonstrates some nice web bots and spidering techniques in his great book called Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers. Spidering is a subject which is least discussed on internet and you could not find any good libraries on it easily. A lot of examples and techniques are provided throughout the book. Author has also provided some demo libraries using which you can start almost instantly.
This is a kind of essential book if you’re a newbie and looking to get your hands on new fields.
- Now in the age of Web2.0, Most of our projects involve building spiders, crawlers and other type of web bots.
- Developing a webbot involved whole new mindset.
- Once you start learning, you will automatically get new ideas for your clients and your own processes.
- Learn from the author’s 11 year career of writing webbots and spiders.
- Helps implementing Automation in your life.
This book has certainly lot more to offer than what I wrote… Highly Recommended!!
- Abhimanyu Grover