May 4 2007
ShoeMoney

Scraper Code All Over Google Code Search

23 people have said their piece on this post. What say you?

I was looking for some php examples for something I was doing and I keep coming upon this site which has TONS of scraper made for adsense code. I gotta think they made this for google code search but dont you think its kind of stupid?

Anyway…

  1. Travel Notebook said on May 4th, 2007 at 4:28 pm

    What exactly is that?

  2. fivecentnickel.com said on May 4th, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Um, yeah. Very much so.

  3. Al Davies said on May 4th, 2007 at 4:47 pm

    Bigger question is what were YOU trying to do ;-)

  4. Peter said on May 4th, 2007 at 6:25 pm

    You could check out scRUBYt! (http://scrubyt.org), the currently hottest Ruby Web scraping framework.

  5. Mike Peters said on May 4th, 2007 at 9:41 pm

    I grabbed the files and installed them. Unless I’m missing something, this seems like nothing more than a MFA template, like the ones you would buy off eBay for $10.

  6. Lee Bandoni said on May 4th, 2007 at 10:43 pm

    I wonder how mant terrabytes of useless code must be online these days, I bet there is also some really sweet code from big companies just sitting around

  7. Amanda said on May 5th, 2007 at 2:20 am

    Its all jibberish to meee

  8. corey said on May 5th, 2007 at 3:08 am

    I click your link and see “Content not found.”

    But every 5th time it will load? WTF?

  9. Jeremy Luebke said on May 5th, 2007 at 3:42 am

    Thanks Peter, thats gonna be of some use :P

  10. Chris said on May 5th, 2007 at 4:30 am

    Search Google Code for “shoemoney” and that site comes up too.

  11. Brent said on May 5th, 2007 at 4:46 am

    Yeah very interesting. Google scrapes a site that teaches you how to do scraper pages then claims:

    “Google is neither affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content.”

    I’m gonna start using that quote on all my sites! ;D

  12. coopreme said on May 5th, 2007 at 7:13 am

    scraper code…

  13. CPA Affiliates said on May 5th, 2007 at 7:24 am

    scraper code to me is useless for the most part the good code u won’t find it floating out there as easily. depending on what u are doing it may be just as easy to contract out writing junk content :)

  14. SEO blog said on May 5th, 2007 at 8:23 am

    lol that’s exactly what I was wondering.

  15. Travel Notebook said on May 5th, 2007 at 9:31 am

    Ahh so thats what it is. It doesnt actually scrape content?

  16. bradman said on May 6th, 2007 at 11:47 am

    Other then the slightly ironic fact that google found the zip, recognized it as php and threw it in Google code, the code is pretty boring and useless. If you’re going to be a spammer at least be clever instead of boring and banal.

  17. John Smith said on May 6th, 2007 at 12:51 pm

    I actually followed the link to their site, you can not see the site. Ok, the 404 page, but nothing for the rest.

  18. Ken Savage said on May 6th, 2007 at 1:21 pm

    and I was wondering if anyone else was wondering who was wondering about this.

  19. Ken Savage said on May 6th, 2007 at 1:22 pm

    scrapper code is useless because of the duplicate content penalties. You have to find a way to scramble the content and change words so it’s not EXACTLY the same. Obviously.

  20. Fashion Industry said on May 6th, 2007 at 2:05 pm

    I need to get up on coding all I know is the simple stuff…like

  21. The Dino said on May 7th, 2007 at 12:03 pm

    What does it do exactly? And how does the Google codesearch works?

  22. Brian Mark said on May 7th, 2007 at 2:46 pm

    Surely you can get your own “Unique” scraper code easy enough. Writing a bot isn’t that difficult. You probably have a dozen books on it already on your bookshelf (which you could give away at the next NPMMO… I’d take one. :))

  23. ritchie said on May 14th, 2007 at 9:18 am

    This looks pretty much like a trial - nobody but programmers is using google codesearch these days.