"Suhas Tembe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > this page contains a "drop-down" list of our customer's locations. > At present, I choose one location from the "drop-down" list & click > submit to get the data, which is displayed in a report format. I > "right-click" & then choose "view source" & save "source" to a file. > I then choose the next location from the "drop-down" list, click > submit again. I again do a "view source" & save the source to > another file and so on.... for all their locations.
It's possible to automate this, but it requires some knowledge of HTML. Basically, you need to look at the <form>...</form> part of the page and find the <select> tag that defines the drop-down. Assuming that the form looks like this: <form action="http://foo.com/customer"; method=GET> <select name=location> <option value=ca>California <option value=ma>Massachussetts ... </select> </form> you'd automate getting the locations by doing something like: for loc in ca ma ... do wget "http://foo.com/customer?location=$loc"; done Wget will save the respective sources in files named "customer?location=ca", "customer?location=ma", etc. But this was only an example. The actual process depends on what's in the form, and it might be considerably more complex than this.
