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WEB scraping from a Newbie

Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:20 am
by dpenny
I'm trying to do WEB scraping interactively with IE. Something like: navigate with IE, hit F3 to do data scraping type#3, navigate with IE, hit F5 to do scraping type#5, etc.

I can almost see how to do it with HTA's and the XMLHTTP object and vbscript, but this seems to assume you want to obtain data from the server via "get or post."

How do I get IE to cough up the data it's already gotten? Any pointers on where to look or tutorials on dealing with IE?

Thanks from a newbie, I do not do this for a living, I'm a hobbiest.

Dick Penny

Re: WEB scraping from a Newbie

Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:45 am
by alex.barylski
What the hell is web scraping??? :? 8O