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retrieve info from searching site batman 05-06-2008
Posted by batman on May 6, 2008, 11:24 am
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there is a website that cotains 2 search input fields: ID and Lastname

i can input to search using either one but lastname uses fuzzy logic.

if more than one result comes back (like if i pass in % for last
name), i get a selection list of all the people.

i can then click on a single person and click the 'info' button to get
a table returned back with all the pertinent info about that person.

i'm trying to come up with a way to do the above and then cycle
through each person in the selection list and get 'info' and pull the
returned table into a local SQL database.

im familiar with programming but never done any perl before-
anybody have an idea?

Posted by greymaus on May 6, 2008, 1:43 pm
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> there is a website that cotains 2 search input fields: ID and Lastname
>
> i can input to search using either one but lastname uses fuzzy logic.
>
> if more than one result comes back (like if i pass in % for last
> name), i get a selection list of all the people.
>
> i can then click on a single person and click the 'info' button to get
> a table returned back with all the pertinent info about that person.
>
> i'm trying to come up with a way to do the above and then cycle
> through each person in the selection list and get 'info' and pull the
> returned table into a local SQL database.
>
> im familiar with programming but never done any perl before-
> anybody have an idea?

perl module WWW::Mechanize might help

--
Greymaus

Anything that can not kill you is a boring experience.

Posted by Peter J. Holzer on May 11, 2008, 6:11 am
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[problem description snipped]
> im familiar with programming but never done any perl before-
> anybody have an idea?

Just curious: If you are familiar with programming but never have used
Perl before, why do you want to do this in Perl? Why don't you use a
programming language you already know?

        hp

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