The O'Reilly Spidering Hacks book is also really good, albeit a little too focussed on Perl.
On Apr 2, 9:54 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Apr 2, 6:37 am, abeen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I would want to know which could be the best programming language for > > developing web spider. > > More information about the spider, much better,, > > > thanks > > >http://www.imavista.com > > Just saw this while passing by... There's a nice book by Michael > Schrenk (www.schrenk.com) called "Webbots, Spiders and Screen > Scrapers" that teaches scraping and spidering from the ground up using > PHP. Since you said you want more info on spiders, this book might be > a good way for you to acquire concept and implementation hand-in-hand. > He's also developed a nice webbot library in PHP that you can get from > his website. > > Also comes with a nice webbot library (which you can download from > the website anyway). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list