Spiders
Skinny introduced me to this spiders book from knowfree.net and I’ve been having wickid ideas ever since I read it.
Of course I’m talking about spiders in the programming sense. Robots and screen scrapers that go out onto the net and grab data and stuff into a database then you can do stuff with that data.
The things you can do with spiders is amazing. I’ve got a few cool ideas, like mixing band info from wikipedia with the google maps api and ripping the data from a site with a shitty design and putting it into your own little database.
But I won’t give away too much stuff cos someone might steal my ideas – I probably won’t have time to finish writing them anyway lol. I should write a guide to writing a spider soon though.
Hmmm.. fun. /geek
Tags: php, programming, spider