lamrinnirmal
Journeyman
you must have gotten spam several times offering cds of all importers, exporters , distributors of stuff like oil, pulses...etc..etc ......(just an example) . there are several sites which host the addresses, contacts of these guys and the spammers lift it from there to make a compiled collection of atleast most of the particular data available on the internet. now i was wondering how these guys "lift" the data from the websites and make a database. do they:
1. use the tedious copy-paste method- which would take really long.
2. or is there some software/freeware which lifts all the concerned data( like only contacts, addresses) from the site and generates a database.
i want to know bout 2. note i am not asking of h4cking the websites. since the contacts are hosted ,which anyways can be stored in a database using 1(and is hence legal) there must be some techinique of performing 2 which is much faster and is ofcourse legal cause its only a simpler version of 1.
any of you know of something like this?
1. use the tedious copy-paste method- which would take really long.
2. or is there some software/freeware which lifts all the concerned data( like only contacts, addresses) from the site and generates a database.
i want to know bout 2. note i am not asking of h4cking the websites. since the contacts are hosted ,which anyways can be stored in a database using 1(and is hence legal) there must be some techinique of performing 2 which is much faster and is ofcourse legal cause its only a simpler version of 1.
any of you know of something like this?