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Perl Web Scrapper 2  

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Selected Providers: leesaikc,
zsantanu,
gangabass

Budget: $30-250

Created: 08/25/2009 at 18:02 EDT

Bid Count: 11

Average Bid:
$ 159

08/30/2009 at 18:02 EDT

Project Creator: scruffy323
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Description

I need a web scraper that will get all the following pieces of
information from these California lotto sites


Drawing Date(Hour too if it's a multi draw for that date)
Drawing Number
Jackpot value
Jackpot cash value
BallValues

You must first describe the architecture of your scraper and it must
be well documented.

The scraper should be something like methods
getCaliforniaDailyThree('MM-DD-YYYY') returning a hash with the
retrieved data. $result{'errorcode'} = 100 if validation failed.
$result{'errorcode'} = 101 if this data doesn't exist.
$result{'errorcode'} = 404 if the page can't be fetched.

A command line wrapper should be included so it can be run on the
command line and should print the returned results.

Example you must include documentation (Source code comments
)explaining the page that specific piece of data comes from and the
content that the data is pulled from. So if a page must be retrieved
with a post so a specific url, with a post variable displaying the
date in a specific format this must be specified. If the surrounding
html segment that the data is extracted from must be included with
comments on what minimum regular expression makes it unique. Care
should be taken to make the regular expression general as possible to
help fault tolerance.

Each scrapper must include a sanity check. What I mean is that before
it pull out any data it must extract and check agains a date with
human verified data. Example,fake data, I go to the web site and see
for the daily three on 03/04/09 the jackpot is $10,000 and numbers are
1,2,3, so that my code will get that date and check that the
extraction of the known values work before fetching new unknown
values.


http://www.calottery.com/Games/DailyThree/
http://www.calottery.com/Games/DailyFour/
http://www.calottery.com/Games/FantasyFive/
http://www.calottery.com/Games/SuperLottoPlus/

I am a perl developer too(who is just too busy), so the documentation
(aka elaborate comments )on what pages, how to retrieve the page , and
the content your scraping(a few lines above and below the line your
scraping and description of the line your scraping) in the pages is
important to me to help fix problems when the scraper breaks at some
point in the future. I can award you the contract but the
documentation has to be as good or better than the code it self. I
just want to be clear on this point.

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250

4 days

08-26-2009 09:26 EDT

We can help in your project, please check PMB to see our related experience.

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100

4 days

08-25-2009 20:26 EDT

I can do this job for you. See PM for details.

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100

1 day

08-25-2009 21:57 EDT

Dear Customer! I am an expert in this field and very interested in this project. Please view PMB for reference to my previous work. Ready to start immediately and finish within less than 1 day. My bid is for fast professional service exciting my customers. Please contact in PMB to discuss details. Best Regards, Zeke

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150

5 days

08-26-2009 01:56 EDT

Hi - I can do this for you quickly.

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200

4 days

08-26-2009 09:34 EDT

I'm interested to write Perl script. Will be quickest.

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250

5 days

08-25-2009 18:31 EDT

I already completed couple of projects with different scrapes in Perl. Please see PM for architecture details. cheers!

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75

5 days

08-25-2009 23:19 EDT

Hi, see pm, thanks

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250

5 days

08-30-2009 05:38 EDT

Hi, please check PMB.

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200

8 days

08-25-2009 23:19 EDT

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Hi! I am ready to start this scrapping project.I have scrap data for many hotel and travel sites. Please check PM! Thanks!

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75

2 days

08-26-2009 01:19 EDT

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I can doit it using lynx and perl text extraction with the error codes you've provided. Please call me. Thanks, Ted

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100

3 days

08-26-2009 05:11 EDT

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I can do it.

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