Hi,
I'm looking for an application thats capable of stripping data from websites (Real Estate) with a structure. I also want that data stored in a database.
I have seen one in Holland that's scanning the structured Real Estate websites.
Does anybody knows where to find an apllication like this
With regards,
Bram Swaneveld
Getting data from a website
David Lowndes
You'd be lucky if WebSite you are accessing is capable to return you data in the XML form.
In this case parsing is simple. This is exactly the scenario for what XML was introduced at the beginning.
If output is always HTML you’ll have much harder time and results will be less stable, any changes in the page layout will break your code. HTML wasn't design for such processing.
It's simple to check. Open the page from this website in IE and go to menu View | Source.
In any case you'd need to send to the server HTTP request and process the results. There are tons of samples of this in the web.
This forum is about "XML and the .Framework". If your WebSite gives you XML and you need help in parsing it we'd be happy to help you with this.