Archive for June, 2009

Noobies Guide on How to Scrape: Part 5 – A Basic Scraper

Thursday, June 11, 2009 20:04 13 Comments

Now that we are up to speed on the data we want to collect, and how cURL works, a basic scraper it’s really just a hop, skip, and a jump away.
Getting Data
The only other point we haven’t covered was how to effectively pull data from our page.   For example say we want to grab the [...]

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Don’t upgrade to Wordpress 2.8

Thursday, June 11, 2009 15:25 5 Comments

The visual editor in Wordpress 2.8 is fucked for the time being (javascript errors), at least if you use anything besides IE from what I understand.
So hold off on it, was going to do a post today, but now my mojo is gone, maybe later.

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Noobies Guide on How to Scrape: Part 3 – Basics of Assessing Your Target

Sunday, June 7, 2009 13:29 1 Comment

This post is a re-write.  I didn’t think the last version was very good, was too long, and looks like it even went out of date. This version is shorter, up to date (as of right now), and easier to follow I think.
For the sake of teaching, I’m going to pick a fairly easy target.  [...]

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Affiliates Being Subpeonad

Thursday, June 4, 2009 17:04 3 Comments

This story broke yesterday on WF by Jon:
BREAKING NEWS!
This is not a rumor. This is 100% confirmed.
Today there were as many as 4-5 subpeonas served to AFFILIATES who promoted Acai Berry offers and are based in the state of Illinois.
UPDATED 06/04/09: All of the affiliates that were served with subpeonas are Illinois based, and were [...]

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