SS Ability - Help needed
Hello, I am in the need of a Proof of Concept to find out if SS can fulfill a need for data capture. I need to navigate to a site, submit form data (from a File/Query) and capture the results page by either parsing the data (to a SQL Db) or saving the HTML to parse later.
The website is (http://www8.nystax.gov/UTLR/utlrHome) and the there are three form values needing to be entered (2 text boxes and one drop down list). Once the form is populated it needs to be submitted and the return pages needs to be captured.
I have read several of the forms regarding this so it looks like it is possible. I have not seen any of the tutorials or forms provide examples on how to accomplish this.
I currently have the 'Basic' version installed, but upon the proof would be looking at upgrading to a licensed version.
Thanks in advance.
SS: Capable!
We've been communicating with you more directly recently, and have been handling your request. For the sake of not having forum topics go seemingly "unanswered", we wanted to post a reply to say that--yes--screen-scraper is capable of the process that you've outlined, and could be done in either Basic or a licensed version of screen-scraper.
For the SQL part of your data transactions, you would need to either save the data to be parsed externally, or use scripts and the proper packages to interface with an SQL database.
If external parsing is needed, a call to
scrapeableFile.getContentAsString(), and then write out the return value to a file.