I'm really amazed how Google provides the showtimes of all the current movies in my country (Argentina)! I was about to start a project related to this, and needed that info so I thought to scrap all the cinemas websites of my city... but then I just asked my self how does google do this? I mean their algorithms are so good that they can tell if the site is a cinema site or not, and they can grab the info they need all automatically?
Does anyone know any good book or site to read about this? I mean how to do an "smart scrapping"?
Thanks!
I don't know how they get the data, maybe really smart scrapers but for your other question:
http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/search/knowledge.html
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(or anyone with knowledge on this subject).
I have been requested to place an "apply with linkedin" button on a clients website, so that job applicants can apply using there linkedin details to make the process a bit easier (please note that this is not for large scale requirement, and is for one company).
Button docs here for ref:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/talent/apply-with-linkedin
I have read the docs and come to the understanding that linkedIn only allows this API feature if:
You have a Linkedin enterprise account
You have a ATS account
I was hoping to get some clarification on these two points to see if I am correct? Or if there is a way to a normal business account can use this feature?
Thank you for any help you can offer here,
All the best,
Wally
Posting for anyone who finds this in future -
LinkedIn requires you to have their ATS system to use the apply with LinkedIn button from their API page.... This costs allot of Money (from my POV - but business class is a thing because businesses have allot of money).
This is not explicitly stated on the site, more like:
To use this feature you need ATS
To get ATS you need to speak with sales and pay for it (I ended up on the phone to a sales rep in Irl to find this out.... so pretty good example of where docs could be more explicate rather than implicit).
I was planning to build a system where I can sync my product list on ebay to woocommerce and vice-versa.
I have gone through the internet searching this info, but cannot find the same.
I have gone through the API:
https://developer.ebay.com/docs#cat.
But, don't know which is going to work or even I don't know whether I'm searching the right category.
If you know any available plugin or any solution or sample, please refer.
You COULD do it that way, in the same sense that you could build yourself a house if I sent you to a lumber yard.
I think what you're really after is this here. It should do everything you need.
You still can do it using the link you shared, but give yourself a good 6 months at least to get your code written. (Or longer depending on how well you can code.)
I am trying to make Woocommerce communicate the buying order to a particular URL when you buy something. I have an RP on that URL with a program that does some math with the data to display different things to the user.
I have been trying to find the answer to my question on how to achieve this for a few days but I can´t seem to find it. I don't know if there is a really simple way or if, on the contrary, this takes a lot of work.
Thanks in advance!
How's it going?
I've found a lot of more detailed answers relating to specific problems relating to RSS feeds, but I can't really figure out how you USE one, basically.
Could someone explain?
I see the RSS feed icon at the top of a lot of Wordpress sites, including my own, but when I click it, it just seems to be a long XML file. I don't know what to do with it, or even why it would be there.
How do you use this? Are you meant to hit it with an API request, or is there a particular kind of software that you use?
Cheers
Before telling you what RSS, let me describe you a common problem that many people have.
Say there is a bunch of sites that you really like and it's sort of a
daily routine for you to go thru them. They may be a news site, your
friend's blog, but also craigslist bcause you're currently looking for
a new house and maybe a weather site to know how late you should stay
at work :)
The first thing you do when you get to work, is open your web browser
and these sites in new tabs. It's not particularly cumbersome because
there are just 4 sites. But think about it: maybe there is a new blog
that you start to like and ho, these cartoons are really funny. Maybe
there is also a bit of financial info that you're interested in and
the pictures that your brother is posting to Flickr every couple day:
they just had a new baby! Also, as you're trying to buy a house, you'd
love a little raise and you've figured that your boss really likes it
when you tell her that you've read about your company in the news or
when you tell her about a new competing product... There is also
StackOverflow. You're desperately trying to get this "expert" badge
and boost up your reputation: this may help with your boss too or even
when you're looking for a new job.
Opening all these tabs is starting to take a toll and you keep
forgetting an important one. You're also slowly getting tired of the
different reading experience that all these sites have: small fonts,
large fonts, ads all over...etc. Now you have a problem.
Imagine there is a tool that does the following: you can tell it what sites you care about, and then, this tool will look up the new stuff for you. It will show everything in a nice looking format. It should also help you identify what's really worth seeing ASAP or maybe have some kind of "serendipity" mode that you can go into and find interesting stuff that you would have missed otherwise. The tool will obviously send you to the original sites should you need more info about any particular story or classified...
This tool exists. It's usually called a Reader, mostly because it lets your read more things online. Often times you'll see them called "RSS reader", because RSS is what they use to get the information from all these sites. RSS is the pipe. You as a user should probably not know about it, but that's what the readers depend on. In an ideal world, when you're on site you like, you should just hit "follow" on a button like this one and then you'd be redirected to your reader of choice. Later when new content is added, you'll get it straight in your reader.
To get a bit into more technical details, RSS (like Atom) is an XML flavor. It's a collection (mostly reverse chronological) of entries. Entries have at least a title and a link to the actual story. They should also include a unique identifier and could have other elements like a description, an image, tags, author information... etc.
RSS is great because it's content agnostic. It can be used to represent a lot of different things (as described in the little story) and decouples the publishing platform from the subscribing platform: they don't even know the other one exists. RSS is their lingua-franca.
I wrote a blog post about this very question not long ago. Here's the link if you're interested in reading my personal interpretation. https://www.rss.com/whatisrss
An XML file is all the content of a page, with no markup. The XML represents the data in its rawest, most descriptive form. Many readers can interpret XML sources from a variety of places, and format all of the data in its own unique way.
I hope I'm not using stackoverflow.com in the wrong way: asking this question!
Recently I ventured in to starting my own business to Sell software without realising the terrible implications that come with ecommerce - the only way to buy my software I offer. This would be fine if I was just selling the file downloads and/or shipping...But I'm not! I the hope that it would be easier (and alot cheaper) I am only offering digital downloads!
All this is fine, and I only have one hurdle to overcome - a big hurdle that is.. automating serial key disturbution!
By the way - the reason I'm using Drupal and Ubercart is, I wanted to make my business website look as professional as possible and I saw a CMS as the way to go. I picked drupal because its open source (free), flexible, very search engine freindly and I knew that lots of other sites with the same idea as me used it, among other reasons! AND I picked Ubercart because it seemed like there was more support for it and it seemed more up to date, etc. But I suppose I can turn to drupal ecommerce module if needs be.
Anyway. All I want is to be able to generate a serial key, add it to a MySQL database and sent it to the user via email as soon as I know that the payments gone through sucessfully - how ever they payed!
I've got the script for that!
I just don't know how to use it! How do execute it, when I some how know when the payments gone through? And How do I know the paying customers details like email, name and amount paid, etc...
Any advice or help appriciated...
Thanks in advance
This is can be done with no problems, i want to tell you that Ubercart as a choice is very good , and more organized than ecommerce, just wanted to tell you that so you know you are on a good track.
I hope you are familiar with hooks, and if not , you can understand them easily in no time, in Ubercart there is a hook_order which gives you the ability to add a functionality when the order is being newly added , saved, updated , or any other state , check this link :
http://www.ubercart.org/docs/api/hook_order
I hope that was helpful enough.