Creating a spyder to pull listings from one site and post it on wordpress

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  nxtmission · Member · Nov 15, 2011 at 10:28 pm

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  I am looking for some guidance.

  I want to create a spyder that crawls the websites of law firms and then retrieves important information about each company and then posts it automatically to my wordpress directory. Or even search other lawyer directories, yellow pages, and pull that data to publish on my site.

  Can someone please point me in the right direction…

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  timethief · Member · Nov 15, 2011 at 10:36 pm

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  You cannot do this on a free hosted WordPress.com blog. Free hosted WordPress.com blogs are for original content only. There are no tools provided here for autoposting content and you need to take note of this policy as well:
  Types of blogs allowed and not allowed

  Automated blogs: Blogs that are generated by computers, including randomly generated blogs, blogs that re-publish press releases, marketing material, search engine results, link dumps or any other mass-produced content. http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/

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  timethief · Member · Nov 15, 2011 at 10:38 pm

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  You can hire a web host and get a free software install from WordPress.org and self host it.