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Screen scraping tool - copies from a wiki to another wiki

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Status: Closed (Selected Service Provider)
Selected Providers: selected service provider visionary7
Budget: $100-300
Created: 08/05/2007 at 13:02 EDT
Bidding Ends: 08/19/2007 at 13:02 EDT
Project Creator: whenileave View PM Post PM
Buyer Rating: 10.00/1010.00/1010.00/1010.00/1010.00/1010.00/1010.00/1010.00/1010.00/1010.00/10
(3 reviews)
Description: My vendor has let me down...haven't heard from him in 5 days.

I'm realizing that some vendors without ratings need to prove a little more than just blank promises. So, I hope the other vendors I spoke to before are willing to to look at this again.

Anyway, the job is to grab content based off a specific keyword like "baseball" off of wikipedia -- since they like the distribution of their information into another mediawiki site. So, the tool needs to:

1) search for all the entries based on a keyword
2) open up each article in wikipedia
3) go to my wiki, do a search for the term (which most likely will not be there)
4) open up the editing page by having the tool activating the "create the link" space & pasting the contents & saving it

I'd prefer someone who knows what Wikipedia is and how mediawiki works. You may need to just have the contents fed into my MySQL database -- might be easier, but if you can activate links on a page & have the contents pasted, that's fine too as long as it saves the articles.

The one caveat is that if the article already exists in my mediawiki, it will stop & move on.

Make sense? I'm going to place this in the $100 - $300 category of work, but I would prefer to pay no more than $100 and preferably less, but we'll see what sort of offers I get.
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Job Type:
  • C/C++
  • Perl/CGI
  • PHP
Database: MySQL
Operating system: (None)
Bid count: 3
Average bid: $ 117

 

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Service Providers PMB Bid Delivery Within Time of Bid Provider Rating
marchent
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$ 150 5 days 08-05-2007 22:12 EDT 10.00/1010.00/1010.00/1010.00/1010.00/1010.00/1010.00/1010.00/1010.00/1010.00/10
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pls check details on PM, i'm not a new freelancer.
LubosM
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$ 100 3 days 08-06-2007 04:11 EDT 10.00/1010.00/1010.00/1010.00/1010.00/1010.00/1010.00/1010.00/1010.00/1010.00/10
(4 reviews)
Hello, I've already created some automated web crawlers using Perl and www::mechanize module which could be modified for this purporse. Thanks & Regards, Lubos.
visionary7
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$ 100 3 days 08-07-2007 07:13 EDT 10.00/1010.00/1010.00/1010.00/1010.00/1010.00/1010.00/1010.00/1010.00/1010.00/10
(4 reviews)
Hi, I can complete this easily, I have already developed similar projects and am highly experienced in screenscraping techniques. I 24, based in the UK and take pride in the quality of my work. Please feel free to PM me if you'd like to discuss this further. Kind Regards, Mark
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