Sometimes there’s no end to the work when scraping web pages – perfect the scrape, and it’s only a matter of time before the scraped page changes format. But sometimes it’s worth it to keep plugging – I use my Google Framed scrape thousands of times a week, every week. For me, I don’t think I can ever go back to vanilla google.
Someone asked me for the imagescraper code, they are going to try a PHP port for a class. It’s GPL’ed now, available here.
| Core and I have been making slow progress with wxWindows – it’s a GREAT library, I have just been very busy. We’ve made an app that displays your free space remaining on your drives. The linux version only looks at “/” right now. Download the Windoze version by clicking the screenshot. We’ll be continuing to work on it.
A couple notes on setting up wxWidgets under Windoze (Core, let’s have some notes on the linux setup too, if needed): |
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Google‘s got a new format! I’ve updated my google results scraper that formats Google results for use in a sidebar frame. Here’s the code if you want to try it at home.
meloncully writes “ok, after MUCH MUCH deliberation we have decided to embark on a project to create a File manager.
and thats about all there is to tell
oh, and its most likely going to be in c++
corey d”
There ya have it!
