Scraping an Entire Website using LINUX

Web scraping (also called Web harvesting or Web data extraction) is a computer software technique of extracting information from websites. Usually, such software programs simulate human exploration of the Web by either implementing low-level Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), or embedding certain full-fledged Web browsers, such as the Internet Explorer (IE) and the Mozilla Web browser. Web scraping is closely related to Web indexing, which indexes Web content using a bot and is a universal technique adopted by most search engines. In contrast, Web scraping focuses more on the transformation of unstructured Web content, typically in HTML format, into structured data that can be stored and analyzed in a central local database or spreadsheet. Web scraping is also related to Web automation, which simulates human Web browsing using computer software. Exemplary uses of Web scraping include online price comparison, weather data monitoring, website change detection, Web research, Web content mashup and Web data integration. [wikipedia]


Scarping a website using wget command in Linux.

$ wget -m --tries=7 "http://www.linuxnuggetz.blogspot.com"


Spoofing the browser that you are using.

$ wget --user-agent="Mozilla 2.0" -m http://www.linuxnuggetz.blogspot.com

Comments

  1. its nice post i dont know how to extract web by using linux as basically i am from .net field but i got good info from your post thanks

    Web Data Extraction

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  2. nice tut, i would try this on my ubuntu box, if your still active in blogging, invite sana kita to join in our new blog community @ http://pinoygeeks.net

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  3. Where does the scrapped website get stored?

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  4. website will be stored in the current folder where you launch the wget command unless you specify another path with the "-O" (--output-document=FILE) parameter.

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  5. How do you install lynx and how well does it work with Ubuntu? I would like to gather property data for an auction coming up soon and this tool could help.

    Thanks

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  6. how to scrap text alone from the website? .... as i am interested only in text processing i need to collect more text data.

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