Just like adsense, which scraped a lot of content. But in this case, a products of CJ affiliates. Preferably free.
Some cpa networks have the actual function as you refer, but I don't know if any script has this feature with cj.
Those are not that hard to write. I wrote a script that logs into my CJ account and finds special deals on certain products for certain advertisers, groups them into product categories ... and then I got busy doing other things and never completed it. I do plan to get back and finish it some day in the future. I just don't want to update my affiliate links by hand every other day. Its too cumbersome. They gave me datafeeds for 5 advertisers, not that that makes a difference. Bottom line, its easy. Write one yourself.
Neither am I. I am an electrical engineer and photographer (funny combination I know). PHP is really easy to learn. I can recommend a book I bought online somewhere (pdf file, need to find the name) that basically shows you how to log in somewhere accept cookies and pretend to be a Firefox 2 From there on its straightforward. You just do everything with the browser and then try to replicate it with the script. Then you do a little bit of pattern matching http://php.net/preg_match and you are pretty much set. To answer your other question: Yes I hate MFA sites
Found it: http://curl.phptrack.com/get_page.php?fuseaction=downloads Funny, that guy still runs the same offer he did when I bought the book half a year ago. Also his English may be a little funny at times and the book is thin, but the curl examples are really first rate and from there on you can do your own stuff, no problem. I think you get a zip file with the book and some php files (examples). Also this is not a book to learn PHP with. Its a book about curl and what to do with it. So if you are new to php (as I am) you might need a little more then this. This one however shows you how to log into a website, look around and do stuff. Without any prior knowledge and this book I had my CJ login script working quickly.
Currently, I still developing simple admin system to storing datafeeds from my merchants use CJ Webservice. Need few keyphrase to to generate niche produtcs. from the huge data on CJ server.
I think OpenAds do what u r looking for ... I sow it in the feature list but not tried it myself so dont rely on me
No, absolutely not. They created a datafeed for me and low and behold it had 5 advertisers in it. Completely useless for what I was going to do. I'd rather scrape the stuff I need.
If some kids down the street created the CJ.com datafeed, I would say "Not bad! Your learning!". If a professional created the CJ.com datafeed, I can only hope that this human being doesn't have children. Brandon
You can always ask cj.com to create separate datafeed file for advertiser. I agree, the categorization of the products at times are very difficult to understand....but still better than nothing. I use the cj.com datafeed at couple of sites...Its one time parsing ... well...then there is file next week..so have to do again... So it has its own pros and cons.
I foolishly requested XML format before even writing a single line of code. Of course that made parsing the damn thing much more difficult. I wish they would have provided some samples to play with upfront. Then I get a 100MB file for 5 Advertisers. It would be nice to request whatever I need instead of having to download the entire thing. Well, and finally the name changes each time (date), which complicates automatic download.