RE: Scraping Data Behind a Form

2006-04-10 Thread Charles K. Clarkson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I'm trying to scrape the data behind the form at : http://www.theblackchurch.com/modules.php?name=Locator As a true : beginner with Perl (I know some php), I'm working from training : scripts that scrape from another site. There are four scripts of : increasing comple

Re: Scraping Data Behind a Form

2006-04-10 Thread kc68
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 19:03:25 -0400, Charles K. Clarkson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I'm trying to scrape the data behind the form at : http://www.theblackchurch.com/modules.php?name=Locator As a true : beginner with Perl (I know some php), I'm working from training

RE: Scraping Data Behind a Form

2006-04-10 Thread Charles K. Clarkson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I don't follow - when I add the suggested line I do get No forms : at (the url). But there is a form on the page cited in the : script. There is no form on the page returned by the given url. You can double check it by navigating to that page in a browser and viewi

RE: Scraping Data Behind a Form

2006-04-11 Thread Dhanashri Bhate
Hi, The page shows 3 forms, ( 2 for Search and one for language selection ). You will first need to decide which form you want to use, and then issue submit_form function with the fields you mentioned. Something like below (untested! :) ) $browser->submit_form ( form_number => 1,

Re: Scraping Data Behind a Form

2006-04-11 Thread kc68
I am slowly making my way through the process of scraping the data behind a form and can now get five results plus a series of links using the script below. I need help in doing the following: 1) Eliminating all material on the page other than the list and the links (and ultimately elimina

Re: Scraping Data Behind a Form

2006-04-12 Thread kc68
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 18:12:16 -0400, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am slowly making my way through the process of scraping the data behind a form and can now get five results plus a series of links using the script below. I need help in doing the following: 1) Eliminating all material on the

Re: Scraping Data Behind a Form

2006-04-12 Thread Alan_C
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 12:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ . . ] lynx -source http://www.theblackchurchpage.com/modules.php?name=Locator > tsthtmsource.htm That gets it the page's markup/source on my Slackware. There's javascript in that page but I don't know much about this. It appears you