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Re:Tell HN: 2 weeks ago, I didnt know programming. I just wr... by cheald on Friday December 31, 2010 @02:31PM (#2056198)
If you're interested in web scraping, take a look at Mechanize (it's available for Perl, Python, and Ruby, at least, though I prefer Ruby) - it makes web scraping trivial.
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Re:Tell HN: 2 weeks ago, I didnt know programming. I just wr... by naithemilkman on Friday December 31, 2010 @02:36PM (#2056214)
Im not interested in web scraping per se but in my previous gig, I was doing erm some 'marketing' through social networks and I was frustrated at not being able to contribute more actively to the process. The marketing work was essentially a programmers job.

So its nice to be able to look under the hood now and see whats going on!

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