Are there bots/programs that can pull text off of a specifit internet page and store it into some sort of database? For example: Open weather.com/your city and pull the temperature of your city at that time and store it into a file without you physicaly doing it yourself.
2006-06-30 05:03:05 · 4 answers · asked by rfulky 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
There are many ways of doing this. What you're describing can be accomplished with the XmlHttp object.
Alternatively, you might be able to use RSS feeds or webservices if a specific site offers them.
2006-06-30 05:07:47 · answer #1 · answered by Kryzchek 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There might be something available but its very easy to develop using VB. I have done it before.
Here is what I did: The app that I wrote allowed an input for a search string on a form and then you press the button. The rest will happen behind the scene. The app will perform a search on yahoo based the input and it would scan through all the results and stores every result, its description and its target URL in the database. You as a user would not see the browser window.
If you need further assistance, email me at one234go@yahoo.com
2006-06-30 12:10:50 · answer #2 · answered by Indigo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you're looking for is called a "screen scraper." If you google that, you'll probably find something that works for you.
I wrote a PHP program that does exactly this. It uses the US Post Office's zip code finder to locate the the city and state of visitors to my site.
If you would give more information about what you're specifically after and if you are an end-user or a developer, we could probably direct you to a specific application.
2006-06-30 12:43:23 · answer #3 · answered by Peter B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could put make a program that reads the things off the page by regular expressions and hold them in variables. Of course you can read from pages with certain modules/libraries.
2006-06-30 12:06:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋