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A web scraper for the earnings of affiliate networks?

by RMartinLee
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Hi warriors, how are you?

I would know if there is a way to create a web scraper to scrape the amount of earnings of the various affiliate networks (including adsense for example) so that we must not connect everytime into our affiliate account.

It would be great if it will be in a HTML/CSS/JS format to build an AIR application.

Let me know if you know something or where I can find a good tutorial online.

Thank you so much.
#affiliate #earnings #networks #scraper #web
  • Profile picture of the author RemingtonSteele
    The best resource that I know of for learning how to code scrapers is a book called Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers.

    It would be great if it will be in a HTML/CSS/JS format to build an AIR application.
    You will definitely need server-side code (e.g., PHP, ASP.NET) to do this. JavaScript works client-side and cannot be used for a scraper. The book that I mentioned is for those who choose to scrape using PHP/CURL. If you want to use ASP.NET, there are plenty of tutorials out there, but I don't know of any comprehensive books dedicated to that topic.
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    • Profile picture of the author campers
      Get the httpfox plugin for firefox so you can watch what your browser is sending to the network websites when you login, browse etc.

      Then look up some PHP/CURL tutorials, or the book RemingtonSteele mentioned. Once you a basic script going, it's not hard to extend it to get the functionality you want to scrape your data.

      You will also need to learn some regular expressions so you can easily parse the data you want from the HTML responses.
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