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Web Information Acquisition from The Scraper Guy
Strip Mining the Web

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The resources of this site are dedicated for processing customer projects with ruthless efficiency.

ScraperGuy provides custom programming services and specialize in website data extract, site scraper, web spider, web crawler, data miner type applications. Some call it web information acquisition. We call it scraping.

Whether you want to just scrape the surface or all the way down to the bottom of the barrel, no job is too big or too small. Please see more information at ASAFP.com, and iFreelance.
 
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Examples of Site Content Extracts


Simple Script Detects Broken Links from A complete list of things caused by global warming

This example illustrates extracting data from multiple sites and sorting and summarizing in a useful format.
Prescription Drug Price Scrape

Search all cities for a specific category select by keyword and make those keywords bold.
Sample Craigslist Scrape
 
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2008 US Zipcode Database

This database contains 2008 zipcodes, with acceptable city names, and a code indicating whether it is a standard, box, military, or unique zip. Somewhat ironically, it is contained in compressed zip format.

It can be used to verify or standardize a snail mail list.

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If you need additional fields in the zipcode database, please contact me. If it's available on the internet, chances are it can be extracted.

2008 US Post Offices

United States Postal Service office locations in CSV format.

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ScraperGuy relies heavily upon the fantastic Lua scripting language.  It's little known, but fast and powerful and runs with minimal installation on Windows, Linux, and Mac.  More specifically, the murgaLua flavor is utilized. 

The FreePascal and Python programming languages are also utilized as well as many great Open Source tools.