Chapter 7. Managing Large Amounts of Data
You will soon find that your webbots are capable of collecting massive amounts of data. The amount of data a simple automated webbot or spider can collect, even if it runs only once a day for several months, is colossal. Since none of us have unlimited storage, managing the quality and volume of the data our programs collect and store becomes very important. In this chapter, I will describe methods to organize the data that your webbots collect and then investigate ways to reduce the size of what you save.
Organizing Data
Organizing the resources that your webbots download requires planning. Whether you employ a well-defined file structure or a relational database, the result should meet the needs of the ...
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