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Entries from April 2008

scRUBYt! and WWW::Mechanize foiled (aka Sneaky Yahoo Scraping Prevention)

April 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Screen scraping. It’s one of those techniques that can be loads of fun and also heaps of frustration. On a recent project, I was charged with scraping some pages from Yahoo! Shopping.
I Hate Screen Scraping
After coding up a quick skeleton, I was surprised to see that none of my initial tests were working [...]

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Hello world!

April 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

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