From: Chuck Dawit Date: 2007-09-18T03:52:57+09:00 Subject: Re: Screen Scraping Advice John Joyce wrote: > On Sep 17, 2007, at 12:25 PM, Charles Pareto wrote: > >> equipment. So I started by downloading the DNS list of all domain >> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. >> > Doesn't sound like much scraping, just searching text for a string. > You could even do a lot of that work with Google. > but just download the file and search for a string. create a data > file of your own that tells you what line you found the string. > Scraping is really for getting data from other sites, using the DOM > structure they have to get (for example) the weather report. Well, I disagree. Once I have all the websites with Cisco in its domain name and I look through them, there are lots of pages that won't show me info unless I do a search within that page itself. (ex. usedcisco.com) To search for specific items on this website I would have to use the search bar located within its page to search for say "WIC-1T" and then search for a price below a specific amount for that item. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.