Subj : Re: Learning screen scraping
To   : comp.programming
From : programmernovice
Date : Wed Sep 14 2005 10:33 am


Richard Heathfield wrote:
> programmernovice@yahoo.com said:
>
> > Hi, I would like to learn to screen-scrape to extract information from
> > web sites.
>
> Why not just get the information by downloading the page in the normal way?
> For text information, you will find this far more reliable. And even for
> graphics, surely it's easier and more reliable to download the PNG or JPEG
> or whatever yourself, than it is to scrape it off your browser window?
>
> --
> Richard Heathfield
> "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/2005
> http://www.cpax.org.uk
> email: rjh at above domain
Thanks for your reply.  The problem is that I have to repeat the
operation hundreds of times for a given web site, so I need to find a
way to automate it.
Many thanks.

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