I need to automate/scrape data from IE I've got a task that is just screaming for automation. Every week, I have to get a number for each of 36 entities for some metrics I do and that basically consists of counting the 'Y's in a certain column in a table on a company web page. Each entity requires picking a value in a dropdown, refreshing the page, and counting 'Y's. It's a slow, cumbersome, tedious, and vulnerable to error process. What I'd love is to point perl at the site and get back the numbers quickly and cleanly. Here's what I do know (I don't know what matters): The site uses kerberos for authenticationThe site uses SSLthe page only works reliably in Internet Explorer I have no previous experience with web automation, so I'm flying fairly blind. #! That gets me a blank IE window and an error message reading "Could not start AutoItX3 Control through OLE" Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Carlos
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Java - Writing a Web Page Scraper or Web Data Extraction Tool By admin on Jan 6, 2008 in Java, Programming Download Source Code In my previous article I wrote about Web-Harvest which is an open source software that can be used for web data scraping, here I am going to show you a real-life example of using it to scrap data from this web site. To write a web data scrapping tool, normally the web pages must be structural. Here is the configuration file that I used to scrap the article information from all articles in this web site. XQuery expression is used to extract the required information. Here is the Java code that is used to do the real work. In the code, I set the configuration file, working folder and also passed in the URL of the article from which I wanted to extract information. The output from the program <article><title>Design Pattern in Java 101 - Builder Pattern (Creational Pattern)</title><author>admin</author><link> 2007/12/31/design-pattern-in- java-101-builder-pattern-creational-pattern/</link></article>
Development of an automated climatic data scraping, filtering and display system 10.1016/j.compag.2009.12.006 : Computers and Electronics in Agriculture Abstract One of the many challenges facing scientists who conduct simulation and analysis of biological systems is the ability to dynamically access spatially referenced climatic, soil and cropland data. Over the past several years, we have developed an Integrated Agricultural Information and Management System (iAIMS), which consists of foundation class climatic, soil and cropland databases. Climatic data are usually available via web pages or FTP sites. Three types of data are stored in the process: original climatic data in file format, parsed climatic data in SQL Server database, and filtered climatic data in SQL Server database. Keywords Climatic data; Web scraping; Data fetching; Data parsing; Data filtering; Data exploring; Temporal interpolation; Spatial interpolation; Missing data estimation Copyright © 2009 Elsevier B.V.
Automated Form Submissions and Data Scraping - MySQL Hello Everyone! I'm working on a project that should help me to automate some processes that are extremely time dependent, with a mySQL database. I'm presently working with 2 developers on this project on a contract basis to complete the job. I'm finding my developer hesitant to come up with a solution on how to possibly implement what I'm requesting be done. I use an online web application to host my data. All of the merchant's gift card services I use have a platform where you can check card balances. The above link is a page where you can check card balances. I would like the mySQL database or another application if its more suited to have the following happen: I would like to repeat a similar task on a few other balance checking pages as well. Any ideas on if this is possible?
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