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?> <?php #------------------------------------------------- # Start: Initialization // Include libraries include(<alt-bot-lib-http.php>); include(<alt-bot-lib-parse.php>); // Identify the search term and url combination desired_site = "www.loremiaNam.com"; search_term = "webbots"; // Initialize other miscellanious variables page_index = 0; url_found = false; previous_target = ""; target = "http://www.schrenk.com/nostarch/webbots/search?q=".urlencode(trim(search_term)); echo "\n"; echo "Looking for search ranking of \"desired_site\"\n"; echo "when the search criteria is \"search_term\"\n"; echo "\n"; # End: Initialization #------------------------------------------------- #------------------------------------------------- # Start: Loop while(url_found==false) { page_index++; echo "Searching for ranking on page #page_index\n"; // Verify that there are not illegal characters in the urls target = html_entity_decode(target); previous_target = html_entity_decode(previous_target); // Make the page fetch request sleep(rand(3, 6)); result = http_get(target, ref=previous_target, GET, "", EXCL_HEAD); page = result['FILE']; #------------------------------------------------- # Start: Parsing content # (Perform the "insertion parse", which is explained in the book.) # # This parse starts by inserting special tags "<data> ...content.. </data>" # around the desired content. Then we create an array, each element containing # the data between <data></data> tags #------------------------------------------------- // We need to place the first "<data>" tag before the first piece of desired // data, which we know starts with the first occurrence of separator separator = "<!--@gap;-->"; // Find first occurrence of separator beg_position = strpos(page, separator); // Get rid of everything before the first piece of desired data // and insert a "<data>" tag before the data. page = substr(page, beg_position, strlen(page)); page = "<data>".page; // We know that each piece of desired data is separated by separator //replace this text with our parse tags, // which will surround all desired content with <data> ... </data>. page = str_replace(separator, "</data> <data>", page); // Put all the desired content into an array. desired_content_array = parse_array(page, "<data>", "</data>", EXCL); # End: Parsing content #------------------------------------------------- #------------------------------------------------- # Start: Look for the desired_site in each result case for(page_rank=0; page_rank<count(desired_content_array); page_rank++) { // Look for the desired_site to appear in one of the listings if(stristr(desired_content_array[page_rank], trim(desired_site))) { url_found_rank_on_page = page_rank; // add one to compensate for listing 0 url_found=true; } } # End: Parsing content #------------------------------------------------- #------------------------------------------------- # Start: Get location of the next page // Create an array of links on this page search_links = parse_array(result['FILE'], "<a", "</a>", EXCL); // Look for the link with the word "Next" in it, as we know this // link contains the address of the next page. for(xx=0; xx<count(search_links); xx++) { if(strstr(search_links[xx], "Next")) { previous_target = target; target = get_attribute(search_links[xx], "href"); // Remember that this path is relative to the target page, // so add protocol and domain target = "http://www.schrenk.com/nostarch/webbots/search/".target; } } # End: Get location of the next page #------------------------------------------------- # Don't seatch forever, stop after 10 pages if(page_index==10) { break; } } # End: Loop #------------------------------------------------- #------------------------------------------------- # Start: Display report echo "\n"; if(url_found) { echo "When performing a search on the phrase \"search_term\" \n"; echo "\"desired_site\" is ranked as item url_found_rank_on_page "; echo "on page page_index. \n"; echo "Its ranking is: page_index.url_found_rank_on_page.\n"; } else { echo "TIMEOUT\n"; echo "\"desired_site\" was not found using the search term \"search_term\" \n"; echo "page_index pages searched.\n"; } echo "\n\n"; # End: Display report #------------------------------------------------- ?>


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