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Posted by richard on 10/17/63 11:56
"richard" <don@john.son> wrote in message
news:ecp8e602o2v@news2.newsguy.com...
> http://safer.fmcsa.dot.gov/CompanySnapshot.aspx
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> How could I go about automating a search of this site's database?
> I'm not interested in all the details they present on the output form,
> just the bare basics.
> That is, trucking company name, city location, and zip code and a couple
> of other fields
> With over a million records, manual searching is out of the question.
> Every trucking company is required to have, and display, a USDOT number.
> Using that field as a starting point, one might be able to extract the
> rest of the information.
> Going by a name search, the site only returns 500 matches and does not
> care where in the name the field appears.
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> I'm open to suggestions.
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PS:
One of my ideas was to automate a search simulating a manual search using
the usdot number as a base.
If the number was issued, then save the output page as a text file.
If it was not issued, skip it and go to the next. As an unissued number
results in a stock "error" message.
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