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Originally Posted by RayVega
Ok, I need some opinions. Here's what I need to do. I run a mainstream company that brokers businesses and property sales. I need to take a listing and auto-post it to about a dozen sites we have memberships with.
For example, say we were a recruiter and we wanted to post a job posting to Monster, hotjobs, careerbuilder, etc. atuomatically without my girl having to copy-paste each one. Only I need to post a business for sale listing, not a job. But same thing. I have 27 branch offices, so we post like 20-50 a day! Manual posting is just too much.
Now, the old developer wrote a program in Delphi that basically is a browser (client side)which screen scrapes and mimics key entry page by page. The problem is that it's clunky, resource intensive, and only works 1/3 of the time. It also usually buchers the posting when it fails.
Any recommendations on how to approach the problem? Server side? PHP? or just get a better Delphi programmer? Any thoughts?
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PHP is fine, as are Python or other server-side languages.
If they use captchas though, you will need an OCR script integrated to pass it.