Scraping content from websites can be a useful tool for gathering information or automating certain tasks. In C#, there are several libraries available that can help make this process easier. In this blog post, we will cover how to use the HtmlAgilityPack library to scrape content from websites in C#.…
Scraping dynamic content from websites has become an important task in data collection and analysis. With the advancements in web technologies, websites are now using dynamic content that cannot be easily scraped with traditional web scraping techniques. In this blog post, we will explore how to scrape dynamic content from…
Sometimes, this site goes down, and the following homepage appears: The jos_session gets corrupted, a frequent issue with Joomla 1.5.x installations. Luckily, fixing this issue is quite simple, just log into the phpMyAdmin site (usually at the following address: http://www.mywebsite.com/phpMyAdmin) and open the joomla database Locate the jos_session table, then…
Back in 2010, security researcher Ron Bowes wrote a Ruby script that downloads information from Facebook’s user directory, a searchable index of public profile pages. The directory did not expose a user’s entire profile and only exposed information that the user has allowed Facebook to make public. Bowes got the…
At the time of writing, the SkyDrive client application on Windows does not support bandwidth throttling on uploads, so if you start uploading a large number of files, it will try to use all the available bandwidth, and this behaviour has an impact on other applications accessing the Internet. A…
The Flash library by Mikal Hart is a wonderful piece of software for improving simple web server apps built on the Arduino: the main problem when designing such apps is that the limited number of RAM available forces the designer either to use an SD card to store the files…
The Contact form in Joomla! uses the mail server settings to send the contact request email to the site administrator. However, when using SMTP servers (I’ve tried both Yahoo! and GMail SMTP servers), it does not work, as the email address of the sender is not recognized by the SMTP…