Parsing HTML and extracting useful bits of data is common job for web programmers. The only question is, how do you go about it? You could use Regular Expressions. On the surface of things, regular ...
Recently our development team needed to find a way to manipulate the body of an article and return JSON objects of all the body content. This was because of the constraints of the Apple News ...
Web-scraping is essentially the task of finding out what input a website expects and understanding the format of its response. For example, Recovery.gov takes a user’s zip code as input before ...
Yahoo today announced that it has released the source code for its Anthelion web crawler designed for parsing structured data from HTML pages under an open source license. Web crawling is at the very ...
What happens when you have invalid code, or attributes that mean nothing, or you have a typo in your attributes in your code? How does Google handle it? Well, Google is pretty good at crawling the ...
Thanks to an interesting quirk in the way Apple Watch handles email content, users willing to brave a little HTML code can include "hidden" versions of a message specifically formatted for the device.
This is a weird 'works in Netscape 4, doesn't in anything else' piece of HTML. I've kept the form but changed all of the script/parameter names.<BR><BR><pre class="ip ...