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Download an Entire Website with Wget

This command downloads the Web site www.website.org/tutorials/html/. The options are: * --recursive: download the entire Web site. * --domains website.org: don't follow links outside website.org. * --no-parent: don't follow links outside the directory tutorials/html/. * --page-requisites: get all the elements that compose the page (images, CSS and so on). * --html-extension: save files with the .html extension. * --convert-links: convert links so that they work locally, off-line. * --restrict-file-names=windows: modify filenames so that they will work in Windows as well. * --no-clobber: don't overwrite any existing files (used in case the download is interrupted and resumed).

Bash/Shell / wget, web, crawler / by ThePeppersStudio (103 days, 3.07 hours ago)

Simple Curl Class

Simple curl implementation in python

Python / pycurl, download, web, crawler / by ThePeppersStudio (202 days, 2.38 hours ago)

Scrape Advertisements from Google Search Results with Python

There are a number of services out there such as Google Cash Detective that will go run some searches on Google and then save the advertisements so you can track who is advertising for what keywords over time. It’s actually a very accurate technique for finding out what ads are profitable. After tracking a keyword for several weeks it’s possible to see what ads have been running consistently over time. The nature of Pay Per Click is that only profitable advertisements will continue to run long term. So if you can identify what ads, for what keywords are profitable then it should be possible to duplicate them and get some of that profitable traffic for yourself. The following script is a Python program that perhaps breaks the Google terms of service. So consider it as a guide for how this kind of HTML parsing could be done. It spoofs the User-agent to appear as though it is a real browser, and then does a search through all the keywords stored in an sqlite database and stores the ads displayed for that keyword in the database. The script makes use of the awesome Beautiful Soup library. Beautiful Soup makes parsing HTML content really easy. But because of the nature of scraping the web it is very fragile since it makes several assumptions about the structure of the Google results page and if they change their site then the script could break.

Python / google, ads, advertisement, crawler, search / by ThePeppersStudio (208 days, 7.68 hours ago)

Getting Ezine Article Content Automatically with Python

If you’re not familiar with Ezine articles they are basically niche content about 200 to 2000 words long that some ‘expert’ writes and shares for re-publishing the content under the stipulation that it includes the signature (and usually a link) for the author. Articles are great from both the advertiser and publisher perspective since the author can get good links back to their site for promotion and the publishers get quality content without having to write it themselves.

Python / ezine, crawler, search / by ThePeppersStudio (208 days, 7.73 hours ago)