Web Crawler... well, sort of

[Guest]

What would be the best method to get data from other websites? For example, let's say there's a website that lists all of their cars for sale, and with their permission they wanted to allow another website to list this data... how could you automatically get that data (with no access to their database). Literally "mine" their website

[Newsgroup_User]

Google "screen scraping"....

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"jsteinmann" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> What would be the best method to get data from other websites? For
> example,
> let's say there's a website that lists all of their cars for sale, and
> with
> their permission they wanted to allow another website to list this data...
> how
> could you automatically get that data (with no access to their database).
> Literally "mine" their website
>

[Guest]

I was curious what methods or ways others found best. There is a lot of information available, but it's inconsistent and seems to vary. Some say grab the get or post via html, some say us curl, others have software solutions you can buy, etc. What's the easiest way to grab data from a repeating recordset displayed on a page?

[Newsgroup_User]

I think you use the file operations to open the external page as a text
file, and read out the elements continaining the info you want.

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"jsteinmann" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I was curious what methods or ways others found best. There is a lot of
> information available, but it's inconsistent and seems to vary. Some say
> grab
> the get or post via html, some say us curl, others have software solutions
> you
> can buy, etc. What's the easiest way to grab data from a repeating
> recordset
> displayed on a page?
>