Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers -- Table of Contents

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Introduction

PART I: FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES
Chapter 1: What's in It for You?
Chapter 2: Ideas for Webbots
Chapter 3: Downloading Web Pages
Chapter 4: Parsing Techniques
Chapter 5: Automating Form Submission
Chapter 6: Managing Large Amounts of Data

PART II: PROJECTS
Chapter 7: Price-Monitoring Webbots
Chapter 8: Image-Capturing Webbots
Chapter 9: Link-Verification Webbots
Chapter 10: Anonymous Browsing Webbots
Chapter 11: Search-Ranking Webbots
Chapter 12: Aggregation Webbots
Chapter 13: FTP Webbots
Chapter 14: NNTP News Webbots
Chapter 15: Webbots That Read Email
Chapter 16: Webbots That Send Email
Chapter 17: Converting a Website into a Function

PART III: ADVANCED TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Chapter 18: Spiders
Chapter 19: Procurement Webbots and Snipers
Chapter 20: Webbots and Cryptography
Chapter 21: Authentication
Chapter 22: Advanced Cookie Management
Chapter 23: Scheduling Webbots and Spiders

PART IV: LARGER CONSIDERATIONS
Chapter 24: Designing Stealthy Webbots and Spiders
Chapter 25: Writing Fault-Tolerant Webbots
Chapter 26: Designing Webbot-Friendly Websites
Chapter 27: Killing Spiders
Chapter 28: Keeping Webbots out of Trouble
Appendix A: PHP/CURL Reference
Appendix B: Status Codes
Appendix C: SMS Email Addresses
Index

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