"Mark Schupp" wrote in message news:OC**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
: Screen scraping is a technique, not a format.
Hi Mark...
Thanks for responding. I didn't realize I said it was a format and I should
have said HTML scraping since it's not really screen scraping like it would
be on a terminal.
: The technique is to intercept
: the raw data (in this case HTML)that would normally be displayed on the
: client system screen and extract data from it. In ASP context screen
: scraping would typically be done by having a server-side component (such
as
: xmlhttprequest) perform a get or post to a url and return the raw HTML as
: text. Then a parser of some kind is used to extract the desired
information.
Yes, I'm familiar with that process.
: The example you present would be difficult (though not impossible) to
: screen-scrape server-side. The parser would have to be able to evaluate
the
: output of the JavaScript function to get the data. I have seen references
to
: using the HTML browser component (MSHTML object) to do things like this
but
: I don't think it works well server-side.
I have not been able to do it either. I think it may require HTML scraping
the site and then "screen" scraping my page, implying printing it to a text
file and then reloading and parsing that or capturing it from my screen
memory, the former being the easier of the two. This would require the
result look like
us**@domain.com instead of user at domain dot com. I think
I'll test the first since so many suggest using encoded javascript to hide
from spammers.
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Roland Hall
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