Mobile devices prove to be a setback for cross-platform software development, but I hope it will be a minor one.  At present, Android totally dominates the mobile market both in terms of hardware and software volume.  As well, mobile devices are overtaking desktops for overall usage as we speak.  But Linux, as open-source-friendly as it is appears to be getting the rub from Google, so where are we?

As Google continues to grumble about not controlling the world, they're leaking…

Web crawling (also known as web scraping) is widely applied in many areas today. It targets at fetching new or updated data from any websites and store the data for an easy access. Web crawler tools are getting well known to the common, since the web crawler has simplified and automated the entire crawling process to make web data resource become easily accessible to everyone. Using a web crawler tool will set free people from repetitive typing or copy-pasting, and we could expect a…

Enterprise Connect provides the comprehensive analysis and in-depth sessions you need, covering Unified Communications, Mobility, SIP Trunking, Cloud, Video, Collaboration, WebRTC and more.

I had the pleasure of attending Enterprise Connect '17. #EC17 is a conference about communication: telephony, video, chat, and all forms of…

Looking for something interesting to do this weekend? Well, if you're in South Florida, there's a hackathon Saturday that sounds like a great way to learn some new tools and use some interesting …

O'Reilly Conference Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship Program:

At O'Reilly, they believe that true innovation depends on hearing from, and listening to, people with a variety of perspectives. They want their conferences, and the technology communities and companies who participate in them, to include, encourage, and recognize people of all races, ethnicities,…

Humble Bundle 2017: 

O'Reilly has another Humble Book Bundle, this time: All about Hacks. 

Fill your library with practical and creative hacks with O'Reilly's latest Humble Bundle. Readers can pay any price they choose and support a charity at the same time! Bundle Ends …

Octoaprse enables you to scrape latest news articles from news source.

There're two parts for getting the real-time data in Octoparse - Make a scraping task and schedule a task to run it in Octoparse cloud.

In this web scraping tutorial we will scrape the latest news articles of TheStreet.com to get article information - such as the title of article, article body text, date/time article published, author and article URL with…

Octoaprse enables you to scrape finance data from financial websites. There're two parts for getting the real-time data in Octoparse - Make a scraping task and schedule a task to run it in Octoparse cloud.

In this web scraping tutorial we will scrape the stock data - such as most active stocks, stock gainers and stock losers on Yahoo Finance with Octoparse.

The website URLs we will use are as follows.…

Octoaprse enables you to scrape stock information from financial website. There're two parts for getting the real-time data in Octoparse - Make a scraping task and schedule a task to run it in Octoparse cloud.

In this web scraping tutorial we will scrape the stock data from CNN Money website to get detail information - such as the title, body, published date/time, author and article URL with Octoparse.

The website URL we will use is…

Q: How to add a fixed value when scraping in Octoparse?

Octoparse enables you to scrape reviews from yelp.com.    

In this tutorial we will scrape all reviews about car audios in Brooklyn, NY, United States from yelp.com with Octoparse.

The website URL we will use is …

In this tutorial we will scrape the phone numbers of all the hotels and their customer reviews in London from TripAdvisor.com with Octoparse.

The website URL we will use is https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotels-g186338-London_England-Hotels.html.

The data fields include Hotel name, the number of reviews, address, ranking, PhoneNumber, customer…

Octoparse enables you to scrape data from eBay.com. To speed up the extraction, you can use our Cloud Extraction to split the scraping task into many sub-tasks. Then our cloud servers will collect the data shortly and provide you with a structured data-set.   

To scrape product details from eBay.com as fast as possible, you can make two scraping tasks -- Task 1 and Task 2. Task 1 is used to scrape the URLs of product details and Task 2 is used to scrape all the product details from …

Octoparse enables you to scrape the online dictionary into an organized list by entering a list of words. It’s very easy to use and could get the definition and examples of the word you want by using a Loop mode for entering a text list.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to scrape definition of some words from merriam-webster.com.

The website URL we will use is …

(picture from www.luxurybackpacker.com)

Collecting online customer reviews, including star ratings, comments, likes, dislikes, images, videos, share channels and etc, can help an online retailer to better understand if the product sold is a good purchase and popular among customers, thus to adjust marketing strategies. There are many web scraping tools available online to live up to your expectations to scrape…

Octoparse offers the most convenient way to scrape data from websites. Although few programming knowledge is required, some still claim that they have no ideas about how to use Octoparse. Thus this post aims to help our lovely new users to settle into Octoparse smoothly.

Below you will find links to 10 of the most helpful tutorials that will support you to make a first step in Octoparse. These guides will not only help you in scraping different kinds of website structures,…