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Automation of link fetching

I'm getting RSI from copy and paste

         

growing

2:21 am on May 30, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I'm a CJ "publisher" and would like to download all the affiliate product links from cj.com for my advertisers.

Is there a way to automate this task? I'm getting RSI copying and pasting links one by one. Once I have them in a big table, I will have no problem placing them in the appropriate pages on my site.

I run a very large site, and adding the links 1 by 1 is not really a good option.

I've looked at writing a spider, but the cookies and javascript at cj.com make this a daunting task.

Has anybody managed to automate it?

growing

4:30 am on May 30, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I think I have answered my own question, but here is what I have found in case others are interested.

CJ can provide a datafeed:

- It costs $200 setup unless sales > $10K month
- XML, CSV, tab or pipe
- optionally gzipped
- some people have reported that the file is over 1.5GB gzipped! depending upon which advertisers you have selected.

Details at [cj.com...]