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I am in need of a few Amzon sellers who can test this service along with me. In return, I will be making this service available for free to these users. Please, send me a PM regarding this.

Hello all, I am an expert level scraper and ruby developer. At the moment, I am creating a Web application that will connect to your Amazon MWS account, and setup marketing campaigns to be sent to buyers of your products in order to derive more Amazon reviews and feedback ratings from them. I...

Hey guys, I am an advanced level scraper, in that I can scrape JS heavy websites, scrape Google searches, override captchas etc. I have complete datasets for startups like listings from Airbnb, User profile information from Github, proxy listings from Free Public Proxy Sites and several...

DigitalOcean only provides a single IP per server instance. Therefore, it will cost you $0.007/hr/proxy. So, for 100 proxies the cost will be $0.7 per hour, or nearly $17/day, or $504/month. Note that, DigitalOcean limits a new account to max 5 server instances. If you need to create more than 5...

Please, understand that, this web application is already driving traffic for me, and I would love to learn some honest, and sincere ideas. I do not want to disrupt my relationship with my visitors. This is an honest business opportunity for me, and I would like you to respond with the same in...

Hey Guys, I am new to the IM side of things, but I am deep into programming (esp. Ruby, Python). I have been creating several web apps since last few years. One particular web application gains quite a good amount of traffic (around 2k-4k UV per day). I am considering a new promotional...

Without actually being able to see the site in question, all I can recommend is that you can use a headless javascript based driver for filling the form/selecting the file. This should work most probably. Example driver is PhantomJS based poltergeist.

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Thanks for the welcome :) Regarding the PM, I sure will take you up on that. :) Yes, just added to the profile. I would really ask you to look into Python, mechanize and scrapy. Or, Ruby and mechanize. Well, I am more into automating things on the web end - as I must have said above, but you...

Thanks for the welcome. I sure know of several programming books or websites that you can tap into for learning purposes. But, rather than suggesting you something half-arsed, I would like to know what specifically you are aiming for, e.g. automating things, designing websites, developing custom...

Updated URL. Seems like the Gist got deleted as someone flagged it or something. Uploaded on Pastebin now. paste.bin.c.o.m/KHrwdD6E

Hey all, I am a Rails-Python programmer who loves to automate almost all business aspects for my clients (and me). I am deep down into data mining (including web scraping), API integrations, online automata, custom CLI/server scripts for product promotion, etc. I apologize for this promotion...