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from: Richard
date: 2004-12-06 22:20:00
subject: Automating retrieval of d

Any one know of a program that will retrieve data from a website with no
keystroking involved?
What I am looking at doing is taking some basic information from a site, and
reorganizing that information to a spreadsheet style format.
The database has over 1,000,000 entries.
So manual retrieval is out of the question.
The problem is, records are not truly sequential. so it may skip 5 or 6 in
between 2 valid entries.

http://www.example.com/query.asp?searchtype=ANY&query_type=queryCarrierSnaps
hot&query_param=USDOT&query_string=10293

This is a sample of the web page identifier. The only item that needs to be
changed is the last number.
The valid entries all contain a stock block format for the information.
All I want out of it is just a few bare basic items.

If there is such a program available, let me know please.
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