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XULRunner and Crowbar – Crawling of sorts?

This was going to be a tutorial on getting these two things running to achieve everything I want, sadly I can’t work out how to get the last step working, which is to navigate the returned Ajax page to allow me to extract different information. As such this is...

Using Subversion to get Crowbar

This post is just a reference point for another post, a Subversion client is needed for downloading Crowbar, so I downloaded TortoiseSVN available here. A quick install with the default options and I was away. I created a new folder on my desktop called Crowbar, went...

Ajax Crawling with PHP and Curl?

I apologise now if I put off some of the more general readers with this post, but I’ve struck upon a bit a problem! I have some automated code that I wrote using PHP and Curl, that retrieves a mountain of information from a website, does some statistical...