Scraping the javascript link
Hi Talents,
I am new to screen scraping. And i have gone through the tutorials. and i found it is very useful.
I need to get product details from [url]http://www.futurebazaar.com[/url]
While trying this i was struck when i saw the product link in javascript.
while having close look at the tidied product url they are using as,
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Then, when creating the [b]extracter pattern[/b], I have replaced it as,
[b]
[/b]
but i cant get [b]dataset[/b].
How can i get data from futurebazaar.
How can i get going now.
Did i made any mistake there.
Help me.
by,
Alex
Thank you Scott
Thank you Scott,
I saw your example. It gives me lot of confidence..
Then i tried and found where i made a mistake..
Thank you for your Support..
Scraping the javascript link
alex,
I set up a little test session with what I had suggested and it works for me. Please download the session here and load it in screen-scraper to compare with what you have.
http://projects.screen-scraper.com/misc/Test-extractor-patterns_Scraping-Session.zip
You'll need to drop the test.html file right off your c: drive as you'll see in the session.
Hope this helps.
-Scott
Need Further Assistance
Thank you Scott.
Thank you for your support. :)
But i missed to add that in my original posting.
I have tried with single quotes too. And i have Edited the token too. But i din't change the regex for single quotes. Thanks for your information.
But [b]after changing the regular expressions too. i cant get the dataset [/b]:(
Please, Guide me further
Scraping the javascript link
alex,
It's very important to use regular expressions when you can. Here's how I would modify your extractor pattern.
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Note how productkey includes the single quotes around it. Now, for the regular expressions.
productkey:
[^']*(do not match single quotes zero or more times or match anything between single quotes)
producttitle:
[^<>]*(do not match opening and closing tags or match anything between an opening and closing HTML tag)
Give this a try and let us know how it goes.
-Scott