Stories from the Web Crawling trenches in libcurl

Downloading Images from URLs in C++

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: May 5, 2024

Download images efficiently using C++ with libcurl, Boost.Asio, Qt Network Module, OpenCV, or Poco Libraries.

How to Scrape All the Images from a Website with C++

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Dec 13, 2023

Scraping and downloading images from a website using C++ libraries like libcurl and libxml2. Requires HTML, CSS, and programming knowledge.

Building a Simple Proxy Rotator with C++ and libcurl

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Oct 2, 2023

A simple proxy rotator in C++ using libcurl and RapidXML to fetch and parse proxies from sslproxies.org. Consider using a rotating proxy service for production use.

Scraping Real Estate Listings From Realtor with C++

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Jan 9, 2024

Web scraping tutorial in C++ using libcurl and libxml2 to extract data from Realtor.com listings.

Scraping Yelp Business Listings with C++

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Dec 6, 2023

Web scraping article on extracting business listing data from Yelp using C++ and libraries libcurl and Gumbo.

Scraping eBay Listings with C++ and libcurl in 2023

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Oct 5, 2023

Scrape and extract key data from eBay listings using C++ and the libcurl library.

Scraping New York Times News Headlines in C++

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Dec 6, 2023

Web scraping is a technique for extracting data from websites using C++. This article explains how to scrape article titles and links from The New York Times. It covers concepts like HTTP requests, HTML structure, libcurl, and Gumbo. It also mentions the challenges of IP blocking and suggests using a rotating proxy service like Proxies API.

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