screen-scraper public support

Hello,

I am a newbie in the forum here but would like to say that I absolutely love your product.

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I would like to write my scraping sessions directly into a SQL database, is this possible? Something to the effect of using ADO with VBScript. If this is not feasible, what about writing directly to Access locally? Ultimately I want to cron-job scheduled daily scraping sessions then write/update database.

thanks~

I had the problem that I did not desire character or entity references like

Hi,

Still getting great use from this tool, so thanks for writing it.

I want to extract poll data from a sheet on which there are multiple polls, each representing the same candidates for different questions:

Poll 1
Candidate 1 - 2 votes
Candidate 2 - 4 votes

Poll 2
Candidate 1 - 294 votes
Candidate 2 - 624 votes

My question is how can I extract these as different datasets. I have a pattern which will pull them both, but I get multiple rows per candidate and I can't distinguish between the polls easily.

Running professional (30 day eval) version, using the latest update as of 2-3 days ago. When I try to start the application, I get a Java dialog of some sort, referring to an InvocationTargetException Clicking "details" button shows the below stack trace.

Thanks for any help,
-dado

Ok, I've scraped a page and the pattern doesn't match. (which is cool, cuz when there's data there, it matches fine and does what I want)

What I want to have happen is when the extractor pattern matches, I want it to print that info to a file (which it does), but when it doesn't match, it does not execute the print to file script??

I've checked that the token "is optional" and it still doesn't make any difference. :(

Hello and thank you for such a great product! :)

I'm trying find a quick and easy way to determine if a string contains a specific word. Is there? :?

What I'd like to do is see if the data with a variable contains a specific word and if it does, I don't want to print it to the output file. If it doesn't, then I want it to be printed.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Joey

Hello,
I uninstalled basic version, installed professional version on my Win XP box.

Started client, upgraded to latest stable version, tested running 1 scrape session (which worked well in basic version 2.0). [It failed in professional version, receiving a null response, but that is another issue I might be able to resolve.]

How can I order by price the products of tutorial 3?

Hi

I'll try to scrape a page with stock informations.
The data ist extracting (see log) without errors

my problem is, vb. my script do not find the object/variables
I tried it with "session.getVariable" and with "DataRecord.Get( "Stockexchange" )". It doesn't work. The Object ist not in the session

any ideas ?

thx in advance
brother-t

------ SaveData start -----
' Output a message to the log so we know that we'll be writing the text out to a file.
Session.Log "Writing data to a file."

Is it possible to save a PDF file to disk when it is in the last response section?
If so, how do I set it up and save it?

Thank you
Author R. Jeter