Obtaining reddit data

I am interested in obtaining data from different reddit subreddits. Does anyone know

if there is a reddit/other api similar like twitter does to crawl all the pages?


Yes, reddit has an API that can be used for a variety of purposes such as data

collection, automatic commenting bots, or even to assist in subreddit moderation.

There are a few places to discover information on reddit's API:

    github reddit wiki -- provides the overview and rules for using reddit's API

(follow the rules)
    automatically generated API docs -- provides information on the requests needed to

access most of the API endpoints
    /r/redditdev -- the reddit community dedicated to answering questions both about

reddit's source code and about reddit's API

If there is a particular programming language you are already familiar with, you

should check out the existing set of API wrappers for various languages. Despite my

bias (I am the package maintainer) I am quite certain PRAW, for python, has support

for the largest number of reddit API features.



Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14322834/obtaining-reddit-data

Scraping data in dynamic sites

I'm trying to scrape data from our local government. What I want is address from kids adoption offices. Here, in Brazil, all adoptions go through the government. So I have the URL of one office, there are 2 or 3 thousands more. But if I can manage to get one, the others will be easy. I made many attempts, bellow I show three.

The problem could be related to a Javascript (Ajax maybe) that refresh the page.

Note: I am not a PHP developer.

First attempt

echo '<html><head></head><body>';
echo '<h1>Scraper PHP GET 1</h1>';

echo ini_get("allow_url_fopen");
echo ini_get("allow_url_fopen");

// I used this url for test
//$url = 'http://www.portaldaadocao.com.br';

//This is the URL that I really want
$url = 'http://www.cnj.jus.br/cna/Controle/ConsultaPublicaBuscaControle.php?transacao=CONSULTA&vara=2673';

$html = file_get_contents($url);
var_dump($html);

echo '</body></html>';

// Output
// 11
// Warning:
file_get_contents(http://www.cnj.jus.br/cna/Controle/ConsultaPublicaBuscaControle.php?
transacao=CONSULTA&vara=2673) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP
request failed! HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found in /home/rsl/www/sc01_get.php on line 14
// bool(false)

Second attempt

echo '<html><head></head><body>';
echo '<h1>Scraper PHP CURL 3</h1>';

// I used this url for test
//$url = 'http://www.portaldaadocao.com.br';

//This is the URL that I really want
$url = 'http://www.cnj.jus.br/cna/Controle/ConsultaPublicaBuscaControle.php?transacao=CONSULTA&vara=2673';

$curl = curl_init($url);
@curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "foo");
@curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
@curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");;

$html=@curl_exec($curl);

if (!$html) {
    echo "<br />cURL error number:" .curl_errno($curl);
    echo "<br />cURL error:" . curl_error($curl);
    exit;
}
else{
   echo '<br>begin HTML[';
    echo  $html;
   echo '<br>]end html ';
}
echo '</body></html>';

// Output
// 1

third attempt

function curl($url){
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.897.0 Safari/535.6');
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookie.txt");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "cookie.txt");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 30);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, "http://www.windowsphone.com");

    $data = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    return $data;
}

echo '<html><head></head><body>';
echo '<h1>Scraper PHP CURL 5</h1>';

// I used this url for test
//$url = 'http://www.portaldaadocao.com.br';

//This is the URL that I really want
$url = 'http://www.cnj.jus.br/cna/Controle/ConsultaPublicaBuscaControle.php?transacao=CONSULTA&vara=2673';

$curl = curl_init($url);
@curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "foo");
@curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
@curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");;

$html=@curl($curl);


if (!$html) {
    echo "<br />cURL error number:" .curl_errno($curl);
    echo "<br />cURL error:" . curl_error($curl);
    exit;
}
else{
    echo '<br>begin HTML[';
    echo  $html;
    echo '<br>]end html ';
}
echo '</body></html>';

// Output
// cURL error number:0
// cURL error:

If the pages are really ajax based meaning the information that you need to scrape is loaded or shown through javascript execution, you will need another approach. You would need to automate with a real browser. You can go the Selenium route which can be written in a number of languages or use CasperJS with Javascript as the programming language.



Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24611046/scraping-data-in-dynamic-sites

Scraping dynamic data

I am scraping profiles on ask.fm for a research question. The problem is that only the top most recent questions are viewable and I have to click "view more" to see the next 15.

The source code for clicking view more looks like this:

<input class="submit-button-more submit-button-more-active" name="commit" onclick="return Forms.More.allowSubmit(this)" type="submit" value="View more" />

What is an easy way of calling this 4 times before scraping it. I want the most recent 60 posts on the site. Python is preferable.

You could probably use selenium to browse to the website and click on the button/link a few times. You can get that here:

    https://pypi.python.org/pypi/selenium

Or you might be able to do it with mechanize:

    http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/

I have also heard good things about twill, but never used it myself:

    http://twill.idyll.org/



Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19437782/scraping-dynamic-data

Web Scraping data from different sites

I am looking for a few ideas on how can I solve a design problem I'm going to be faced with building a web scraper to scrape multiple sites. Writing the scraper(s) is not the problem, matching the data from different sites (which may have small differences) is.

For the sake of being generic assume that I am scraping something like this from two or more different sites:

    public class Data {
        public int id;
        public String firstname;
        public String surname;
        ....
    }

If i scrape this from two different sites, I will encounter the situation where I could have the following:

Site A: id=100, firstname=William, surname=Doe

Site B: id=1974, firstname=Bill, surname=Doe

Essentially, I would like to consider these two sets of data the same (they are the same person but with their name slightly different on each site). I am looking for possible design solutions that can handle this.

The only idea I've come up with is scraping the data from a third location and using it as a reference list. Then when I scrape site A or B I can, over time, build up a list of failures and store them in a list for each scraper so that it can know (if i find id=100 then i know that the firstname will be William etc). I can't help but feel this is a rubbish idea!

If you need any more info, or if you think my description is a bit naff, let me know!

Thanks,

DMcB


Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23970057/web-scraping-data-from-different-sites

Scrape Data Point Using Python

I am looking to scrape a data point using Python off of the url http://www.cavirtex.com/orderbook .

The data point I am looking to scrape is the lowest bid offer, which at the current moment looks like this:

<tr>
 <td><b>Jan. 19, 2014, 2:37 a.m.</b></td>
 <td><b>0.0775/0.1146</b></td>
 <td><b>860.00000</b></td>
 <td><b>66.65 CAD</b></td>
</tr>

The relevant point being the 860.00 . I am looking to build this into a script which can send me an email to alert me of certain price differentials compared to other exchanges.

I'm quite noobie so if in your explanations you could offer your thought process on why you've done certain things it would be very much appreciated.

Thank you in advance!

Edit: This is what I have so far which will return me the name of the title correctly, I'm having trouble grabbing the table data though.

import urllib2, sys
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

site= "http://cavirtex.com/orderbook"
hdr = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'}
req = urllib2.Request(site,headers=hdr)
page = urllib2.urlopen(req)
soup = BeautifulSoup(page)
print soup.title



Here is the code for scraping the lowest bid from the 'Buying BTC' table:

from selenium import webdriver

fp = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
browser = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=fp)
browser.get('http://www.cavirtex.com/orderbook')

lowest_bid = float('inf')
elements = browser.find_elements_by_xpath('//div[@id="orderbook_buy"]/table/tbody/tr/td')

for element in elements:
    text = element.get_attribute('innerHTML').strip('<b>|</b>')
    try:
        bid = float(text)
        if lowest_bid > bid:
            lowest_bid = bid
    except:
        pass

browser.quit()
print lowest_bid

In order to install Selenium for Python on your Windows-PC, run from a command line:

pip install selenium (or pip install selenium --upgrade if you already have it).

If you want the 'Selling BTC' table instead, then change "orderbook_buy" to "orderbook_sell".

If you want the 'Last Trades' table instead, then change "orderbook_buy" to "orderbook_trades".

Note:

If you consider performance critical, then you can implement the data-scraping via URL-Connection instead of Selenium, and have your program running much faster. However, your code will probably end up being a lot "messier", due to the tedious XML parsing that you'll be obliged to apply...

Here is the code for sending the previous output in an email from yourself to yourself:

import smtplib,ssl

def SendMail(username,password,contents):
    server = Connect(username)
    try:
        server.login(username,password)
        server.sendmail(username,username,contents)
    except smtplib.SMTPException,error:
        Print(error)
    Disconnect(server)

def Connect(username):
    serverName = username[username.index("@")+1:username.index(".")]
    while True:
        try:
            server = smtplib.SMTP(serverDict[serverName])
        except smtplib.SMTPException,error:
            Print(error)
            continue
        try:
            server.ehlo()
            if server.has_extn("starttls"):
                server.starttls()
                server.ehlo()
        except (smtplib.SMTPException,ssl.SSLError),error:
            Print(error)
            Disconnect(server)
            continue
        break
    return server

def Disconnect(server):
    try:
        server.quit()
    except smtplib.SMTPException,error:
        Print(error)

serverDict = {
    "gmail"  :"smtp.gmail.com",
    "hotmail":"smtp.live.com",
    "yahoo"  :"smtp.mail.yahoo.com"
}

SendMail("your_username@your_provider.com","your_password",str(lowest_bid))

The above code should work if your email provider is either gmail or hotmail or yahoo.

Please note that depending on your firewall configuration, it may ask your permission upon the first time you try it...



Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21217034/scrape-data-point-using-python

Data Entry: Why Data Entry Outsourcing?

With the developed technology the world has become a global village, therefore has converted to a single market place. Due to this heavy competition is seen where reduction of overhead for business is possible with the only solution of outsourcing your business to developing countries.

This helps in reducing overhead costs of your business. Companies outsource work in many areas as: call center, software development, CAD, AutoCAD, designing, writing, etc. Out of all these data entry is the most popular, probably because it could be learned easily. Professionals providing services do not only enter your data, but also helps you in managing it for upfront requirements.

These developing services cover several business areas as: online and offline data entry, audio and video entry, image entry, insurance claims entry, numeric data entry, etc. It has become popular because of its impressive benefits associated with it.

Why to outsource Data entry work?

Go for the following benefits associated with it:

Cost effective: Outsourcing your data to enter serves as perfect solution in saving your extra overheads. Outsourcing companies reduce on extra expenditure on resources, receiving equal competency benefits. Outsourcing gives you maximum return on your investment.

Superior Quality: Developing countries having huge human resource are able to provide equal or superior work quality because of its skilled man power. Able to recruit experienced and trained resource are able to provide higher quality work.

Satisfied workforce: As companies get the work done at lower cost compared to developed countries, they pay better to their human capital compared to other work available in their country. This satisfied workforce enthusiastically gives desired results as per client's requirements.

Consistent Data Source in a timely manner: Companies providing outsourcing services to enter data give you consistent and accurate data in a timely manner which can be easily used for the benefits of the organizational needs. Ensuring the efficiency in work flow, this is helpful in saving time.

Developed technology: Though you are outsourcing your entry needs to a developing country, you will find that the technology here you get is efficient, equally upgraded to international standards.

All in one service: Companies providing outsourcing services is also capable of providing related services to its clients in areas such as: online and offline data entry, audio and video entry, image entry, insurance claims, numeric, PDF conversion, image scanning or OCR scanning, image editing, etc.

Report management set-up: Companies providing outsourcing services have a well developed reporting system, with different level heads at communication level. This periodically gives you accurate progress graph of the work assigned.

Thus these services will certainly help you to focus on your core business operations and thus improve your overall productivity.

Offshore Data Entry - We are leading affordable services provider at 60% cutting rates.

Source:http://ezinearticles.com/?Data-Entry:-Why-Data-Entry-Outsourcing?&id=6425948

Tips to Use While Picking Online Data Recovery Services

Most of the businesses use technology every day and night to make their daily tasks easier and faster. Eventually, keeping technology at fingertips makes our lives simpler, and we can get the best opportunities to carry out business processes under smartest technology advantages. The gradually advancing technology will soon make it possible for every individual to virtually use comprehensive services within easy distance from their living or work place. Irrespective of the distance and type of technology services, every technical problem will be resolved in minimum turnaround time so as to not let work hamper. And similar concept goes for the data recovery solutions!

No matter whether you are using a new PC or a hard drive, it is not going to work perfectly throughout your life. You might face technical errors in your machine that should not be ignored; instead, they must be diagnosed and fixed soon so as to avoid any work hamper and data losses. There are times when your bad luck brings computer viruses on your hard drive or some other external damage occurs to it causing data loss. In such a scenario, it is impossible to get back the original data on your own, and you surely need to rush to a professional who can handle the data recovery emergency. However, to acquire most trusted online data recovery services, it is important to hire a reliable data recovery provider.

Below are few helpful tips to find a reputed data recovery service.

•    Look for Recommendations

As mouth-to-mouth campaigning is considered as the most trusted conventional method of marketing, it is recommended to look for valuable suggestions from your business partners, colleagues and friends to find a reputed service company. If similar tragedy happened with some other business owner and they were successful in retrieving their data. What would you do? You will try getting the contact details of the data recovery company, if you can ever need to call them. This is how recommendations help you a long way in acquiring expert online data recovery services.

•    Perform Internet Research

As every data retrieval service provider has online presence today, it is easy to differentiate the good ones from all possible options through Internet. Type relevant keywords on the Google search box and look for the best search results. When you prepare a list of potential service providers, check out the offered set of services and their detailed description. This is how you will be easily able to shortlist the best data recovery companies without compromising your comfort.

•    Do Homework

When you are unable to receive any referrals, you need to look for more companies and check out which ones are offering services that fit well in your price bucket. Most of them might be in the industry for too long and others may have involved recently. Ensure you measure and analyze all the parameters before making the final investment and getting right data recovery solutions.

Source:http://blogs.siliconindia.com/Techvedic/Technology/Tips-to-Use-While-Picking-Online-Data-Recovery-Services-bid-FTE076KD72078993.html