For the latest and best version of the Compete API wrapper please view the Compete page in the scripts area.
My post from last night discussing the
Compete API received two comments. The first highlighted that there was already a
proposal in PEAR. Great to hear but as I did much of the work for a wrapper last night you'll get another version now. Actually there is some potential for a superior hybrid to emerge - my wrapper provides better methods for getting at the data while the PEAR proposal could be more robust.
Given that I wrote the post on a Sunday evening I was more than a little surprised, albeit delighted, to receive a response from Jay Meattle at Compete before I woke on Monday morning. A company which gives a named contact you would expect to be fairly responsive but I still found the time frame here to be impressive.
With the exception of a link from the homepage, which is apparently in the works, Compete has made good on the points I raised so it's time for me to fulfil my part of the deal and release a
PHP5 wrapper for the compete API.
Hopefully it should save anyone else interested in using the Compete API within a PHP project from starting from scratch.
Scraping content from the web is a real pain. In fact, at the moment, I can't think of any programming tasks I like less. I'm sure they exist I just can't think of them - feel free to remind me in the comments. I'm setting up a tool at the moment tha
Tracked: Jul 08, 15:02
A couple of quick announcements . . . New PEAR package for the Compete API After writing about the compete API Hiroki Akimoto contacted me mentioning a proposal he had made to PEAR. Our scripts each had strengths and we decided to combine our atte
Tracked: Aug 02, 14:16