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ybc
10 Aug 2010, 10:11 AM
hi guys,

i just finished highschool starting to do webdesign at uni, and for one of my major project i want to make a search engine as simple as google that searches for example 10 websites and with the keyword given it brings out the results.

im doing a website on jetski sales results so if someone want to buy a jetski they come to this website and just choose the choose one from those 10 website without going to them individually. so it brings out all search resuts in a nice results format, and when you click on each results it take you to the website but i wanna be able to show their photo and price so just like brings their results into your site but combing 10 website results.

and i need to have an advance search option where they can search year price age of jetski, and all these variables are also in the 10 websites that im getting the results from.

i have been doing some searching and i cant get my head around i need some help LOL i dont wanna fail...

cheers guys:teleport:

is_numeric
12 Aug 2010, 07:23 AM
You are going to have to scrape the websites in order to get model and price information. You can buy scraping software

http://www.mozenda.com/Scrape-Website.aspx

or you could write your own using PHP cURL.

http://php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php

You are going to have to define scraping templates for each site in order to target their stock lists

many companies do not endorse this practice and if they change their site then your site will break or at least the feed will