Help with a Simple Script/routine

[dave]

Hi;
I have virtually no Web or HTML programming experience though I am
capable of VB, Basic and and a few other programming languages.

What I was trying to get some help on would be a simple program or
script that I could run that would allow me to retrieve info from a
site that when I have multiple queries. For example I am at site
GoJoe.com (example only) and if I want to get the detail data on recipe
xyz i have to put in a field xyz and when the page refreshes I then
select "get detail recipe" link which then asks me if I want to save
the text file to my pc. Which I respond yes to and then it saves. This
is great but the problem is if I have 20 or 30 reciepies I have to go
through this loop for every one.

I there a simple script that I could get to read a txt file that would
have the recipes already loaded in like (xyz, abc, mno, etc....) that
would read the recipe, then go to the address that I would have gone to
when I click "get detail recipe", have it pull the detail information
and save it automatically to my PC. Complete this until the txt file
runs to it's end.

Sounds relatively simple it's just I don't have the Web develop skills
for the code. Can anyone offer some starter help with this? I'm sure
I could debug things once I got started.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Dave

 

[Rob ^_^]

Hi Dave,


It sounds simple but what you are asking for will be incredibly complex and
time consuming(realy!). I suggest you try a tabbed browser interface that
allows you to open links into multiple tabs.

Try the MSN Search toolbar with tabbed browsing

http://toolbar.msn.com

The Maxthon browser

http://maxthon.com

There are software products out there that can create a 'Macro' for you

try

http://www.tethyssolutions.com/internet-web-recorder.htm

A simple method of adding links to your Links toolbar is to just drag and
drop them to your links toolbar.

Oh there is an excellent product The Momma Explorer Bar

http://www.mamma.com/info/services_tools/exbar/exbar.html

Actually this is the best recommendation I could make to you for your
purpose.

Regards.

 

[Tom]

Hi;
I have virtually no Web or HTML programming experience though I am
capable of VB, Basic and and a few other programming languages.

What I was trying to get some help on would be a simple program or
script that I could run that would allow me to retrieve info from a
site that when I have multiple queries. For example I am at site
GoJoe.com (example only) and if I want to get the detail data on recipe
xyz i have to put in a field xyz and when the page refreshes I then
select "get detail recipe" link which then asks me if I want to save
the text file to my pc. Which I respond yes to and then it saves. This
is great but the problem is if I have 20 or 30 reciepies I have to go
through this loop for every one.

I there a simple script that I could get to read a txt file that would
have the recipes already loaded in like (xyz, abc, mno, etc....) that
would read the recipe, then go to the address that I would have gone to
when I click "get detail recipe", have it pull the detail information
and save it automatically to my PC. Complete this until the txt file
runs to it's end.

Sounds relatively simple it's just I don't have the Web develop skills
for the code. Can anyone offer some starter help with this? I'm sure
I could debug things once I got started.

Thanks in advance for any help.

What you want to accomplish can not be done with the information provided.
You will need to provide an exact url for examination and then explain what
exactly you are trying to retrieve from the site. In my experience, pseudo
examples are insufficient to explain the task on the first try. Also, a
VBScript group would be a better place to ask for programming help.