screen-scraper public support

I'll start with a disclaimer that I recognize that I'm not a programmer (writing simple PHP code and Excel macros is about my speed) and therefore probably out of my depth; and that I'm probably posing a question that amounts to asking you to teach me how to program in Java.

I am trying to use screen-scraper and have followed the tutorial throughout. Everything worked fine until using scripts. In running the scraping session, with the attached script, I received this error. I have downloaded the latest Microsoft Scripting software from their website, yet still get the error message. Any ideas? Thanks!!!

I waant to add some classes and methods to parse CSV files. I downloaded a jar file from http://ostermiller.org/utils/LabeledCSVParser.html

I tried putting the downloaded jar file in the both the ext and lib directories. Interpreted java script cannot find the classes in the jar file. All the documentation I can find says to do it this way. What am I doing wrong? What's the secret?

Thanks

Don

Hi,
I'm new to screen-scraper, and so far it looks like a great tool. I have a question about running sessions externally:

I am trying to insert the datarecords to a mysql database. However from within the script iam not able to load the mysql driver. I have placed the mysql connector jar file in the lib/ext directory.
The exception just says com.mysql.driver and nothing else.

How should i do this? I am not calling the scraping session from an external java program though!

Thanks

Hey all,

I'm attempting to scrape the staff information from a page similar to this:

I can get the information for the superintendent just fine; but only because it is the first table in the list.

When I try to get the data for the athletic director (AD), the extractor pattern first finds the name & phone from the superintendent, then it finds the 'Athletic Director' label, and (kind of) gets the correct data after that.

I want to work on the same stuff at work and home. Forget that I have two laptops. Which files do I move from computer to computer?

Hey all,

I've modified the 'hello world' tutorial to parse a couple things from some html files I have.

I have roughly 250 html files already downloaded I need to parse. All the names are slightly different, so I can't easily make a loop to go through them.

Currently, I wrote a C# program to read all the html file names, and use that to write a script file in vbScript. I then copy the script file into screen-scraper and attempt to run it. Below is a sample of the output from my C# program.

~#URL#~ is set to the entire URL in the scraping session.

Hi,

I'm using pro v2.6 and trying to scrape from an external java application. When I run the java application I get a 'Connection refused' message in the Eclipse IDE output console.

I created an Extractor Pattern to catch the entire page (contents: ~@THEPAGE@~) to use during troubleshooting. If I can save the page, then I can tell if it caught all of the relevant information from it).

Screen-Scraper locked up after hitting Apply Pattern to Last Scraped Data.

Actually, it didn't really lockup. I can still do some things, but the cursor is always an hour glass (except when I mouseover something that changes it, like a textbox). And I never saw the window that tells me that the extractor pattern is taking too much time, nor the data that I want.