This article isn’t meant to discuss what web scraping is, or why it’s valuable to do. What I intend to focus on instead, is how modern web application architecture is changing how web scraping can/must be performed. A nice article discussing traditional web scraping just appeared in Hacker Newsletter #375 by Vinko Kodžoman. His article tipped my motivation to write this.
More …It’s been about a year, a little over actually, since I started work on my main side project. The app is a motocross track directory, which isn’t something that doesn’t exist already, but I felt existing track directories were lacking a lot of features. This lead to me creating MapMoto.
More …Update April 10th, 2017: The plugin developer contacted me about this post. Out of respect for the way they handled it (extremely classy), I wanted to put a link to the paid version of their plugin. So, if you actually want support on the unlimited feed, and don’t want to do any hacky tricks, go support their hard work via the link below.
More …UPDATE 12/5/2016: If you’re going to attempt to integrate this into the WordPress platform, please consider using my WP Drinking Age Plugin.
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