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Hello

I need to create a web bot/crawler/spider that would go into different web sites and collect data for us and store in a database. The crawler needs to 'READ' the options on a website (either from drop-downs, radio-buttons or check-boxesand) to create some input itself OR use some generic pre-defined words (that we provide it with).

For example, a webpage might be structure with a text field and some drop-downs. Typically, if the user enters the case number of a court case the web-site displays the status, and also there might be different legal documents thay could be retrieved through drop-down options like: 'Industry Permits', 'Civil Cases', 'Criminl cases' etc. So the crawler should be able to read and self-generate a list of suitable options and use them to get the data. we want to create a bot/crawler/spider that will automatically enter the information about multiple cases etc. i.e. case numbers (text field), case type (from drop-downs) and retrieve the data about the relevant cases available on the website.

What is the best approach to achieve this? We can write inidividual bots for each website but are trying to come-up with a more intelligent bot or crawler that can be used to crawl multiple websites. Please advise on how we can achive this.

We are not doing anything illegal, everything perfectly legal. Please advise on how we can achieve this.

Regards
Kishore
Oct 21 '08 #1
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