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Dipleague. HtmlSQL/examples at master · hxseven/htmlSQL. Lxml - Processing XML and HTML with Python. An Introduction to Compassionate Screen Scraping. Screen scraping is the art of programatically extracting data from websites.

An Introduction to Compassionate Screen Scraping

If you think it's useful: it is. If you think it's difficult: it isn't. And if you think it's easy to really piss off administrators with ill-considered scripts, you're damn right. This is a tutorial on not just screen scraping, but socially responsible screen scraping. Its an amalgam of getting the data you want and the Golden Rule, and reading it is going to make the web a better place. We're going to be doing this tutorial in Python, and will use the httplib2 and BeautifulSoup libraries to make things as easy as possible. Websites crash. For my blog, the error reports I get are all generated by overzealous webcrawlers from search engines (perhaps the most ubiquitous specie of screenscraper).

Thismoment, Inc. - Social Content Management For Brands, Content Publishing and Distribution, Marketing Campaign Management. Free video chat API and Widgets. TxtRoo Launches A Yelp For The Feature Phone Market. TxtRoo, a company that was invented and coded into existence from the Stanford StartupBus headed to SXSW in Austin, Texas last week, can best be described as a Yelp for the feature phone market.

TxtRoo Launches A Yelp For The Feature Phone Market

Like Yelp, which delivers user reviews and other local business information to both web and smartphone users, TxtRoo aims to do the same using SMS text messages. What’s most interesting about TxtRoo, however, is how quickly it was able to sign up customers. The team had commitments from half a dozen local businesses before the prototype was even finished – about 6 hours into its development. The company was one of the many teams on this year’s StartupBus event, a 72-hour hackathon that challenges entrepreneurs to design, build and pitch a business idea while traveling from their hometowns to SXSW in Austin, Texas. (Note: TechCrunch TV was covering StartupBus from the road. Here’s how TxtRoo works: PHPCrawl - Webcrawler Class. Accessing the Data. Commoncrawl/commoncrawl. Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) Amazon SNS lets you push messages to mobile devices or distributed services, via API or an easy-to-use management console. You can seamlessly scale from a handful of messages per day to millions of messages or higher.

With SNS you can publish a message once, and deliver it one or more times. So you can choose to direct unique messages to individual Apple, Google or Amazon devices, or broadcast deliveries to many mobile devices with a single publish request. GoMo Guides. Multi-Screen Resources Skip to content Make Your Website Work Across Multiple Devices Build a website that showcases your business on every screen from smartphones and tablets to computers and TVs.

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Your customers expect a great browsing experience regardless of what device they use. Whitepaper Building websites for the multi-screen consumer. Get Started. Multi-Screen Resources Skip to content Make Your Website Work Across Multiple Devices Build a website that showcases your business on every screen from smartphones and tablets to computers and TVs.

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Your customers expect a great browsing experience regardless of what device they use. Whitepaper Building websites for the multi-screen consumer. 4 Ways BlackBerry Can Stay Relevant. James Citron is CEO and Co-Founder of Mogreet, the worldʼs first mobile video marketing platform.

4 Ways BlackBerry Can Stay Relevant

The digital entrepreneur has more than a decade of experience in the mobile industry with a proven track record for introducing successful, cutting-edge technology into the global marketplace. Follow him at @jamescitron. Five years ago, a Canadian handset company stormed onto the scene with the hottest “must have” mobile device. The RIM BlackBerry was around before the iPhone, when the Droid was still just science fiction. Today, the seas have changed considerably. The days of the always-reliable BlackBerry may be numbered, save for a major re-focus of the company. New tools to help online publishers Go Mobile. Top 5 Mobile Advertising Trends To Watch. Mobile advertising is increasingly important, as cell phone adoption rates, especially smartphone adoption rates, soar.

Top 5 Mobile Advertising Trends To Watch

With a range of mobile advertising options, including SMS, WAP, mobile app display ads, search ads, rich media, video and push notifications, the landscape can be a bit complicated. After a tough 2009, advertisers are expected to increase mobile and digital marketing budgets over the next year. With this in mind, it's essential that advertisers keep up-to-date on their options in the mobile space. Here, we've laid out five mobile advertising trends to watch over the coming year.

Let us know which trends you're keeping your eyes on in the comments below. 1. With approximately 90% of the U.S. population owning cell phones, according to CTIA's semi-annual wireless industry survey, and 98% of those phones being SMS-enabled out of the box, SMS is one of the most popular communication methods in the world. Pricing. Pricing. Atomic Mobile. Pricing - 46elks.com - Empower your apps with Voice, SMS & MMS.

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