From: Konrad Meyer <konrad@...>
Date: 2007-09-18T04:26:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Screen Scraping Advice

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Quoth Chuck Dawit:
> John Joyce wrote:
> > On Sep 17, 2007, at 12:25 PM, Charles Pareto wrote:
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> >> equipment. So I started by downloading the DNS list of all domain =20
> >> 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.
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> Well, I disagree. Once I have all the websites with Cisco in its domain=20
> name and I look through them, there are lots of pages that won't show me=
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> info unless I do a search within that page itself. (ex. usedcisco.com)=20
> To search for specific items on this website I would have to use the=20
> search bar located within its page to search for say "WIC-1T" and then=20
> search for a price below a specific amount for that item.

Do a search on froogle for "cisco productname" with the max price set at
60% MSRP. Should turn up a few hits.

HTH,
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Konrad Meyer <konrad@tylerc.org> http://konrad.sobertillnoon.com/

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