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HI,

I am starting to evaluate Screen Scraper Professional who looks good , but it' seems impossible to scrape French web site !!!

I want to invoke screen-scraper from Java.
I turn off "Tidy HTML" and use Arial Unicode MS and UTF-8 setting as explain in the faq and in the forum
.All the French characters are displayed as ? ,both in textfile and in my java client !!
The only thinks who work is to set the characters in ISO-8859-1 and to create a file . In Java it never display the French characters even if I try to convert then in UTF8

I have created the scraping session and data extract but now need to post it into a Web Form page. ( I looked at the Tutorials but did not see the Shopping site post the data to the form)

I thought why not try one of the free sites like GoogleSheets or Zoho where you can create a form or post to a URL for online storage.

My question is --- Once I have the data extracted into variables I know how to store it in a file but using a script or scraping session how do I post it to a URL?

Thanks
TS

Can anyone provide a script file that will allow me to set the current date
as a session variable in the format "MM/DD/YYYY"

I need to pass the current date to run a report and then get the data.

Thanks
TS

Im trying to extract data from 12bet.com. In the scrapeable file, the URL is http://www.12bet.com/UnderOver_data.aspx. The parameters have all been set up automatically. When I first look at last response, the data I want is there.
When I then run a scraping session,and look at the last response tab again, the data is not there. I just get the following.

Hello

First of I want to give a big thanks for the Screenscraper team that has made this program and is helping my ide to become reality. Big thanks.

Now to the problem that I have with the software is that its not recognising foren characters.

One example that I have...

Luleå, Norrbottens län, Sweden

Should be: Luleå, Norrbottens Län, Sweden

I am scraping a multi lingual website and every time there is a foren character I seam to get this problem.

Any help to fix it would be appreciated.

David

Hello,

I've been using ScreenScraper to do some simple test scrapes from websites, and it works very well. I'm trying to step things up a bit and get SS to do even more things for me: namely automate the downloading of a PDF file. I've read the various posts about this, and am following the advice in the post "Can PDF be saved?" i.e.

I'm new to Screen-scraper, and I'm trying to extract multiple elements using the same pattern from an XML page. So in other words, the same XML tag is repeated on the page, but the values change. When I apply the pattern (Apply Pattern to Last Scraped Data) I see all the data there in the small pop-up table. But when I come to apply a script to extract, not all the data is extracted to the text file; I don't get all my sequences. I'm only using the basic extract script given in the tutorial, so:

I'm trying to using this example script: http://community.screen-scraper.com/script_repository/Next_Page

but keep getting the error: The error message was: Unary operation "++" inappropriate for object : at Line: 16.

Line 16 contains:
// Increment the page number
currentPage++;

Ideas?

/Johan

I've just managed to get my first site scraped and all is well besides that SS almost chokes itself as the scrape is running. It's a Real Estate listings site with around 2500 listings that take about 3 hours to run. I have read the post regarding the cashing of Next pages on http://blog.screen-scraper.com/2008/07/07/large-data/ but the navigation set on this site is different and does not contain any "next batch link" nor the "max pages".

hi
may I know the scripting engine that screen scraper using?
like beanshell,groovy,JDK
thanks