Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers: A Guide to Developing Internet Agents with PHP/CURL

The Internet is bigger and better than what a mere browser allows. Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers is for programmers and businesspeople who want to take full advantage of the vast resources available on the Web. There's no reason to let browsers limit your online experience—especially when you can easily automate online tasks to suit your individual needs.

Learn how to write webbots and spiders that do all this and more:
–Programmatically download entire websites
–Effective…