Hi Nikhil, most likely the flash application loads something like a JSON (or CSV, if they are bad programmers ;-) ) from a specified API address. Use a network sniffer to intercept the traffic that the flashplayer generates, and see whether you can replicate the API.
If you are lucky, you will see HTTP requests to an URL along the lines of http://schoolgis.nic.in/state_x/data.json?school=0000001 to 000014986. In that case, you can then manually scrape the JSON files (if need be by emulating a flashplayer's HTTP headers, though I doubt that they check for this). If you are unlucky, its a more complex API - some stateful frontends for SQL databases can be very nasty to replicate, for instance. One brute force kind of solution in such cases would be to write a custom proxy server (there are python/perl/... modules for this) - i.e. a kind of customized sniffer - and route your browser traffic through this, then automate the browser (again, there are plugins for firefox and chrome that have corresponding python or perl interfaces), and intercept the traffic generated. That's the solution I found to scrape polling station localities from the ECI server (before they put a bold copyright disclaimer on it - now this kind of scraping would probably be illegal - so do check these issues as well). Let us know what you find out about the API, Best of luck, Raphael On 21.05.2016 11:43, Nikhil VJ wrote: > Hi friends, > > is their any way to extract data from such a flash player platform...as > follows... > > schoolgis.nic.in <http://schoolgis.nic.in/> > > --regards, > Nikhil VJ > Pune > > -- > Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more > about us by visiting http://datameet.org > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Dr Raphael Susewind | Associate, Contemporary South Asia Studies, Oxford Snail Mail | Melanchthonstr. 4a, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany Web & Twitter | https://www.raphael-susewind.de | @RaphaelSusewind Impact | https://impactstory.org/raphael-susewind Please consider https://www.gnupg.org for encryption (key id 10AEE42F) -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
