Scrapping US State Government Website using PHP / MySQL

Posted 2 weeks ago

Worldwide

Summary

We need an experienced programmer to create a reliable script to scrape the DMV website’s list of car dealers. We have a number of states that we need this script to work for. We need to build a list of all the car dealers and then we need to re-run the script once or twice a week to pick up any new car dealers that have been added to the list. We’ll need to grab all the relevant information like dealership’s name, address, license number, phone number, etc. We need to use PHP / MySQL as we have programmers here internally that know PHP well in case we need to make modifications down the road. We’ll want a basic button to press through a web interface, and the scrapping script can run from our server. We’ll give you access to a dev environment on our server to build the PHP script. If you’ve written scripts scrapping government websites before, please let us know what that experience is in your cover letter. We tried to hire some developers for this before but they were unable to complete the task. So for this one, we'd like to hire you for an hour or two and have you do a deep dive into the actual state's website and tell us your approach and how much time it will take. If you have any questions about this project, please feel free to ask.

  • Less than 30 hrs/week
    Hourly
  • 1-3 months
    Duration
  • Expert
    Experience Level
  • $15.00

    -

    $35.00

    Hourly
  • Remote Job
  • Ongoing project
    Project Type
Skills and Expertise
Mandatory skills
PHP
MySQL
Data Scraping
Activity on this job
  • Proposals:50+
  • Last viewed by client:5 days ago
  • Hires:
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  • Interviewing:
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About the client
Member since Aug 22, 2013
  • United States
    Agoura Hills8:51 PM
  • $13K total spent
    329 hires, 3 active
  • 79 hours
  • Tech & IT
    Small company (2-9 people)

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