Hi,
actually i have a website [login to view URL] and I have a script, in excell (VBA) that can easly scrape onother site and export, from it, a lot of information related to the product that i sell (image included).
Usually i do like this:
1. run the excell script in order to scrape the other website;
2. After this, i manually make same adjustment to the excell file and, when the file is ready,
3. import it (with an extension called OPENCART PRO) into my website.
4. After this i import all the Pictures (scraped before), via FTP, into my server and....done! A new catalog is online.
What i want to do? I would like to automate all the process, for example, 1 time per week. Or, if necessary, when i want, maybe via admin site...
I will give you all the necessary details. Server accept chron job.
Many thanks.
Hi there!
Despite that I'm new to freelancer.com I'm skilled programmer in C#, java and various databases. I'm working on daily basis with downloading and datamining data from serveral web sites so I could do this job for you very quickly and efficient. Can you please send example or image because it is not included? Also I'm negotiable about price. If you contact me we could talk about all preferences and I could explain you how I would do the spider to do automatic job.
Best regards,
Grega
Hi! I have great experience in this kind of automation. Especially in Excell API programing from C# and site grabbing with Selenium.
Kind Regards,
Thomas
Hi,
We have team experienced individuals in web development. Though we are new to freelancer, but has successfully completed projects with 100% client satisfaction. We are confident we can complete this job according to your requirement.
Looking forward to hear from you.
Thanks
Shiv Agrawal
SuiGen Solutions
Ciao :)
I'm expert in Shell scripting on Unix-like systems, as well as in VBA for Excel, indeed we can use a cron daemon for this purposes, please let me know more details, provide VBA script, lets discuss ways you'll prefer and I'll do my best for you. Please let me know if you're interested.
With Best Regards,
Anatolii
Hi,
An ASP.NET,c#,vb ,SqlServer,JQuery,Javascript expert here. Please feel free to discuss the project with me so that i can wrap it up in a timely manner as per your requirements.
I would like to have a detailed document of your requirements so that we can discuss the each and every point in details.
Thanks,
Murtaza
Hi,
I read your project, and think that I can do it, but I'll need some extra information to be sure.
To automate this process I would do this:
1) php script that will scrape websites using for example simple_php_dom_parser. Since u already have scraper in vba, this should be easy task. Of course need to check which websites you want to scrape before I can confirm that will be possible to do it in php.
2) this part can be tricky because of variety of data and adjustments you use. So I also need some examples (ofc if u pick me for this project) of what adjustments are u made.
3 & 4) since it will use php scraping on server, all the necessary data and images will be there, so nor importing nor uploading will be necessary.
Hello,
Since the scraper is writter in VBA, I will likely rewrite it in ruby (I assume the extension accepts CSV files). I can then use php-cli or a post request to upload the data, with the images already in place. I can schedule a cron job and if required, add an option for an immediate scrape.
I have 5 years experience as a php and ruby programmer and this will be a straightforward job. Thank you for your time and let me know your thoughts.
Kind regards,
Ovidiu