Very new to this. Here is my issue:
I have to log into a site X.com in order to use certain search features. I'm a paying member and am registered.
I want to automatically search once an hour for certain things.
It occurred to me that it would be easier to set up a cron to do the searches and send the results to my email or text.
So, I thought I could install XAMPP locally and that would work since it is 'local', which I thought equated to as being my computer or -- 'me'.
So I created a simple scrape program that goes to X.com?search=a+b|c+d However X.com doesn't recognize the program as being ME and indicates the scrape program is not authorized since it isn't logged in. Is that because the XAMPP has a different IP address or something else?
Whatever the reason, is there a way I can set things up to accomplish my objective?