"Spidering Hacks" by O'Reilly is targeted at everyone who wants to automate surfing the web and has a little bit of programming experience. Though each of the hacks in the book covers a particular topic, similar to books in the Cookbook series, there is also a lot of material that is generally applicable in each of them.
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I was interested in hack #35 ("gathering movies from the Library of Congress" as noted by an amazon.com reviewer), but strange enough, the source code archive downloaded from oreilly.com doesn't contain any code for this particular "hack"...
I was interested in hack #35 ("gathering movies from the Library of Congress" as noted by an amazon.com reviewer), but strange enough, the source code archive downloaded from oreilly.com doesn't contain any code for this particular "hack"...