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Scraping websites using YQL

Posted on 19. Jan, 2010 by Nikhil Sheth.

We typically do lot of data scraping for various projects. We either use php functions or CURL for scraping data from remote websites. This involves reading remote url content, removing unwanted characters from it and then using regular expressions getting relevant data.
While this is not that complex, it sometimes becomes too messy. So while exploring [...]

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