Methods and apparatus to automatically crawl the internet using image analysis

摘要

Methods and apparatus to automatically crawl the Internet using image analysis are disclosed. An example method to visually identify components of a web page includes rendering a web page in a web browser to generate an image, and visually analyzing at least a portion of the image with a machine to detect a region containing a possible web page component. The example method further includes automatically determining a type of the detected web page component and storing the web page component type and a location of the portion of the web page.