Posted by joe t. on 08/11/06 12:15

axlq wrote:
> In article <1155245133.537125.73740@74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com>,
> joe t. <thookerov@gmail.com> wrote:
> >There is a website that requires me to log in using a web-form.
> >...
> >Those results pages are what i want to get to, but through some kind of
> >script that parses the results that get served out, not by user
> >interaction.
>
> I once did this to gather a huge amount of historical data from a
> horse-racing web site. I had to write the application in Java. It
> would log in with my userID and password, submit queries to forms,
> save the HTML result pages sent back, then parse the tabular data in
> those pages into comma-delimited text data.
>
> It was a much bigger project than I anticipated. I suspect there
> are some macro automation tools out there that will let you do it
> more easily.
>
> -Alex


Thanks all of you for the suggestions. i will investigate these options
and try to report back on success.
-joe

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