screen-scraper public support

I am using a registered copy of screen-scraper professional 2.7.2.

I am invoking screen-scraper externally, from a PHP script, and I would like to pass a URL to screen scraper. (I am reading the URL from a file into the PHP script.)

Could you share the appropriate code to pass the URL to screen-scraper?

Appreciatively,
Peter

Hi,

I need to migrate a large amount of data from a standard Excel spreadsheet to existing columns within a databased CRM application.

Is it simple to set up Screen Scraper to do this task?

Thanks in advance

Graham

Do the log file name mean something? Are they a version of a timestamp? I'm trying to associate a log file with a particular scrape that happened. I'll be passing some sort of identifier to the scrapes from now on, so I can search on that parameter in the logs, but for past logs and general knowledge -- what do the log file names (after the scrape name) mean?

Got a quick one for you all. I am trying to set up a counter in a session variable so that I know when the current page is less than the total pages. ("on page 3 of 16"). I can't get the script to add these as int.

if ( Integer.parseInt(session.getVariable("PAGE")) < Integer.parseInt(session.getVariable("TOTALPAGES")) ){
int thenextpage = Integer.parseInt(session.getVariable("PAGE")) + 1;
session.setVariable( "PAGE", thenextpage);
session.scrapeFile("search results");
}

thanks

Many thanks in advance for help on this. I have been struggling with this problem for a while. The write script below worked on the first few runs but is now creating only a blank text file. I also see the values in the log file that should go into the txt file, but they don't appear in the latter.

The script is below. In particular I'm getting a error message each time I call the write script:

"Writing data to a file.
An error occurred while writing the data to a file: null"

The script I'm using is:

FileWriter out = null;

I LOVE this product and have been making great strides with it so far in my evaluation of the professional edition. I am having difficulties, however, downloading images.

SKU (6-digit number) and IMG_SOURCE (full http://.... URL of image)are tokens extracted from a DATARECORD. After each pattern application of the DATARECORD I am invoking a script which calls

session.downloadFile( session.getVariable( "IMG_SOURCE" ), "D:\Images\" + session.getVariable( "SKU" ) = ".jpg");

Hi Kalyan

In the session you sent me you have included an extractor ~@Page_Code@~

Hi :) ,

I have a very basic question. I am trying out this product by building a little spider for our company site. Goal of the test is to store the title and meta tag off several pages in a text file. All works fine except the latest webpage is stored twice in the text file. I have no clue why :? . Some advice would be helpful :wink: .

Your sincerely,
Nebu 8)

--LOG FILE ---

does anyone know how to invoke screen-scraper from Python like java or php?

I need a little help - and I'm a real newbie! And coding and scripting is almost a foreign language . . . . so please first principles!

After I've created an extractor pattern from a section of code taken from a scraper session using the Last Response tab - I inserted the token ~@datarecord@~ and generated an Extracted Data list with all the extracted code I want to scrape with a number of sub-extractor patterns (or do I use just one sub-extractor pattern - insert one line of code and populate it with a number of tokens??)