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Originally Posted by Blubble
Yes. You would look for a pattern that you could match in the HTML source of the page.
Another option would be to parse the DOM of a results page. If you can figure out exactly where a piece of data will show up in the DOM structure of a webpage, you can just do a getElementById (if it has a valid ID) and pull the value of the element. You can also just get to an element via it's DOM hierarchy.
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Hey Blubble, thanks for all your help! I'm just about to start looking into DOMs and HTML scraping. I looked up scraping a little bit and seems to be exactly what I need! I guess knowing HTML/Java Definitely would have helped a lot before jumping right in. lol. Personally, I find it more fun to figure out exactly what I need and ask the forums for questions about things I don't know.
Thanks!
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Originally Posted by ken@weboshelp.net
Thanks for the feedback!
We're definitely looking into doing this. However, we may end up having to rewrite a lot of it to avoid "distributing" or "reproducing" Palm-owned materials. I'll keep you guys updated.
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Hey Ken, I figured there might be some problems with that, but I'm sure you guys can figure it out. I really hope you're able to keep a well organized library of all the functions, that would help a LOT. Good luck!