I am looking for someone who has the time to grab product data from a site and insert it into a database. Each product has around a 300 word description, some of them then have supplementary descriptions which can become quite large, but copy and paste will be your friend! No copyrights will be infringed in the course of this work, but accuracy is vital, as is ensuring that NO products are missed. I will need the following fields: Title, Start Date, Most Recent Modified date, Version, Author, Link, Description, Supplementary description. Roughly 3500 products The site involved has not given permission for any automated removal of data, so this must be a manual job, (unless someone out there has a scraper which can go un-noticed and will cause no excessive load to their server). The job can take up to a month to complete, it is not urgent, but I am on a tight budget. If you can help and are interested, please pm me with any questions. I am willing to pay significantly more than my original budget if somebody can along the way make a little simple graphic for each product too - the products currently have no images - this is a "nice thing if possible" type request - if you cant do the graphics bit but are interested in the rest, please do still get in touch.
i have done data mining work before as well and can surely help you in sorting out this work also sending you a pm looking forward for a possitive response gaurav
thanks for the millions of pms and offers, i have now agreed to work with somebody on this job, so please stop offering! Thanks again for the great response though, will really help save me a lot of time.
Bit of a vague statement...does he mean me, or one of the other 2 people above?? Strange...anyway, job completed, done very well by jayL