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Posted by Cory Walter
Cory Walter
2,309 Points

Spiders/Scripts?

Can anyone point me in the right direction for creating or learning how to create spiders or scripts/macros to crawl a website for product data and flag updated or new information in a csv?

Thanks.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Do you have access to the backend database/files?

Cory Walter
Cory Walter
2,309 Points

James, I am new to spiders. But I do not have access to the backend files/database. I think once I had done an initial crawl and extract all the product detail, I would then create a file or DB table to compare future crawls against.