February 2003
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
9h
English
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Scraping Google Catalogs
Scrape and save Google catalog search results to a comma-delimited file.
The December-Holiday-of-Your-Choice comes but once a year, but catalog shopping is a year-round joy. And Google Catalogs [Hack #33] makes it easier than ever.
Of course, just because you spend a rainy winter afternoon finding the perfect shawl for Aunt Prunella doesn’t mean that you’ll be able to replicate the search when you need it. Or maybe you want to do a search for several things and browse them at your leisure later.
Because Google Catalogs aren’t supported by the Google API, this hack scrapes finds from the HTML of a Google Catalogs results page. It saves the catalog title, date or season, page number, and even a link to an image of the page itself at Google. Results are saved in CSV format, ready for import into a database or spreadsheet application.
Because Google’s Terms of Service prohibits the automated access of their search engines except through the Google API, this hack does not actually connect to Google. Instead, it works on a page of results that you’ve saved from a Google Catalogs search you’ve run yourself. Simply save the results page as HTML source using your browser’s File → Save As... command.
As with the Google News hack [Hack #47], you can optimize the
effectiveness of this hack by changing the results URL ever so
slightly to tweak the order of any data displayed. By adding a
&num=100 to the end of the catalog search results URL, you’ll get up to 100 results ...
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I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
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I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.