MySpace Top 100

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Status:	Closed (Selected Service Provider)
Selected Providers:	selected service provider CroDev
Budget:	$30-100
Created:	10/19/2006 at 0:22 EDT
Bidding Ends:	10/20/2006 at 0:22 EDT
Project Creator:	steveiser   Buyer Rating: (9 reviews)
Description:	I'm looking for a program to be created for MySpace.com. This tool will analyze the 100 million MySpace profiles and datascrape how many friends each ID has, then create a top 100 or top 1000 listing of people with the most friends on MySpace. People on MySpace display their friends on their profiles.. like "so and so has 34234243 friends". That kind of data needs to be scraped along with the profile ID. What needs to be done is to extract that information specifically from all 100,000,000+ profiles through a software program. So the program would start from the beginning and pick up through each profile like ID: 34324 ... "342 friends" Based on having talked to other programmers, this would require having to data scrape this profile by profile. I'm not interested in scraping images or sound or anything like that. Just an ID and the amount of friends the user has. So i guess the application can start from friend id=1 and work its way up. It should be able to pause or resume or be able to start from a selected friend ID. So suppose if i stopped at 400, then tomorrow i can input "401" and it continues on from there. The data needs to be saved whether it's SQL or the computer, whichever is the most efficient. Even if there are profiles that are set to "PRIVATE" or are "DELETED" it doesn't matter. The program should sksip them. SAMPLE OF HOW IT SHOULD LOOK: sample: User ID: 2 Username: ducky Friends: 105854 User ID: 5 Username: Kyle Friends: 660 User ID: 8 Username: The Regular Friends: 267 User ID: 10 Username: Lucas Friends: 24674 User ID: 11 Username: SykoRadio.Net Friends: 68471 User ID: 13 Username: Chris Friends: 41 User ID: 14 Username: alfie numeric Friends: 56488 User ID: 22 Username: ron Friends: 0 If you're competant and can deliver it within less than a 5 day period, then lets start rolling. PLEASE DO NOT POST A BID IF YOU DON'T THINKK YOU CAN DO THIS. I've had enough incompetant programmers trying to take the job already.
Job Type:	C/C++ Delphi Java Perl/CGI PHP
Database:	MS SQL
Operating system:	MS Windows
Bid count:	9
Average bid:	$ 68