Re: Advice on webpage scraper

de Veign 04/28/2006 04:50

I have written an application that parses webpage's but it doesn't handle
addresses. I was trying to avoid modifying the application as the cost for
an existing program would be cheaper then me doing it.

Thanx for you help but I will probably modify my app to handle the site's
content...

If your interested in the application, its free, its at
http://www.veign.com/download_app.asp?app=108 . It should be going through
a major overhaul shortly that will clean up the results.

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"Al Klein" <rukbat@pern.invalid> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 02:01:45 GMT, "Veign" <NOSPAMveign1@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>I had come across one several years ago that did this but I totally see
>>what
>>you are saying. Since addresses can be very complex and inconsistent
>>along
>>with page coding styles I can see that it may be a tall order...
>
> Not so much inconsistent over a page - if that's the case the program
> probably can't be written (I tell my customers that there's a second
> order relationship between inconsistency and price - twice as
> inconsistent causes 4 times the work, so it costs 4 times as much) -
> but inconsistent from one site to another. The program has to be
> written for that site.
>
> That said, writing a program to parse a web site is fairly easy if you
> know any programming language. A language like Perl makes it trivial,
> but even VB6 can go to the page, download it and save a file of names,
> addresses and phone numbers from the data it gets.