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#Webscraper not selecting links software#
This is the first in a series of papers I expect to be writing on the construction and use of scraping software, software tools that automatically interrogate web sites for data of interest and repackage the retrieved data into a most useful form. The approach that is less suitable for the functional consumer, the web site visitor, is often the one more suitable for the real consumer, the advertising purchaser. the data is available, but not in the form that supports the most efficient usage. The means by which this data is provided is often of marginal benefit, i.e.
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