Content Scraping with VuGen
Sunday, May 10th, 2009As I’ve said before, VuGen makes a great content scraping tool for cases when you want a quick and dirty script to save specific data from multiple webpages.
In this example, I wanted to create a list of all the WordPress plugins available from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ (currently there are 4,245), and save all the metadata about the plugin:
- Number of downloads
- Version number
- Rating
- etc…
