Archive for the ‘Scraping’ Category
Saturday, May 5th, 2007
As we've seen in my posts for scraping AOL, GMail and Yahoo, each site has its own "tricks" that make it challenging to scrape contact information from. The final site in this series of posts is for Hotmail. Hotmail is one of the trickier ones. As I did with the ...
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
In our previous posts we've looked at how to scrape both Yahoo! and AOL webmail for a list of contacts given a username and password. This technique can be critical in growing your user base by allowing your users to invite many friends in one quick and easy step. Our ...
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Monday, April 30th, 2007
This is the 3rd post in a short series discussing how I built an API to grab contact list information from Yahoo!, AOL, GMail and Hotmail. In our first post we reviewed the high level approach to scraping sites. In our second post we went over how to scrape Yahoo! ...
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Sunday, April 29th, 2007
This post builds on my previous post, in which we discuss how to scrape webmail sites for contacts. Yahoo! is by far the easiest of the sites to scrape (of the major sites). After you've sniffed the URLs used for the login you just need to replace the username and ...
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