Comments on: Wikipedia Scraper

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 22:21:28 +0000

Hello!

I am using your wonderful script, but only offline, when using it on my live webserver nothing is displayed!

Is there any settings or modules I need to install on the webserver in order for it to get working?

Please help, I must get this Wikipedia scraping working.

Kind regards and thanks for a wonderful article!

/Daniel

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:18:03 +0000

Thx for the script – it works great! But how can you limit the amount of data returned? Ie – stop the data returned after about 3 paragraphs, or limit the number of characters returned?

By: digga

digga — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:04:22 +0000

u the man yet again ..thnx nickycakes.

By: nickycakes

nickycakes — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:47:12 +0000

=))

By: steve

steve — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:52:30 +0000

sweet. worked. thanks, script works charmingly.

By: nickycakes

nickycakes — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:58:25 +0000

that’s a matter of encoding. if you’re in firefox and go to view->character encoding and select utf8 or whatever, it should work fine.

By: steve

steve — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:34:56 +0000

seems like pretty much all the results have a bunch of special chars that don’t want to render. any ideas?

By: nickycakes

nickycakes — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:08:58 +0000

Cause i use the wrappers for everything and so writing it with curl manually is code overkill.

By: Netmktg

Netmktg — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:02:25 +0000

Its code-overkill… why use the WebbotsSpidersScreenScraper_Libraries when a line of Curl with about 3 lines of Curl Setopt will do the same thing

By: ato

ato — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:34:22 +0000

sample please…