A particular website posts forms for subscribers to view, by Form ID.
Given a set of FormID's, I'd like automate the process of bringing up
each form in a browser and saving the HTML to a file (this is not
prohibited in the site's Terms of Use and the subscription fee is hefty).
Can someone please help with how to set this up or point me to an example?
I've looked at VB's Winsock and DHTML, and I've written asp's in Java
and VBScript before.
Here is what the URL's look like when operating the site manually:
This command brings up the form selections:
This would bring up form ID 3216878:
With the form on screen, View Source gives this:
<html>
<head>
<title>anysite Online Access | Fetch Form</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/enhanced_css.asp" type="text/css">
</head>
<frameset rows="128, *" border="0" frameborder="0" framespacing="0">
<frame src="/fetchFormNav.asp?FormID=3216837&Type=HTML&v_ppu=resultsForms%2Easp%3FEndRow%3D25%26FormTypeID%3D74%26ReceivedDate%3DTODAY%26SortColumn%3D102%26SortOrder%3DD%26StartRow%3D1%26Ticker%3D%26SearchTypeID%3D1" name="nav" noresize scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">
<frame src="/EFX_dll/anysitepro.dll?FetchFormHTML1?ID=3216837&SessionID=F8eAIu7t9EHowuJ" name="Form" noresize scrolling="yes">
</frameset>
</html>
(the session ID is assigned at user logon and remains constant until logout)
Any suggestions GREATLY appreciated... thanks!
Given a set of FormID's, I'd like automate the process of bringing up
each form in a browser and saving the HTML to a file (this is not
prohibited in the site's Terms of Use and the subscription fee is hefty).
Can someone please help with how to set this up or point me to an example?
I've looked at VB's Winsock and DHTML, and I've written asp's in Java
and VBScript before.
Here is what the URL's look like when operating the site manually:
This command brings up the form selections:
This would bring up form ID 3216878:
With the form on screen, View Source gives this:
<html>
<head>
<title>anysite Online Access | Fetch Form</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/enhanced_css.asp" type="text/css">
</head>
<frameset rows="128, *" border="0" frameborder="0" framespacing="0">
<frame src="/fetchFormNav.asp?FormID=3216837&Type=HTML&v_ppu=resultsForms%2Easp%3FEndRow%3D25%26FormTypeID%3D74%26ReceivedDate%3DTODAY%26SortColumn%3D102%26SortOrder%3DD%26StartRow%3D1%26Ticker%3D%26SearchTypeID%3D1" name="nav" noresize scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">
<frame src="/EFX_dll/anysitepro.dll?FetchFormHTML1?ID=3216837&SessionID=F8eAIu7t9EHowuJ" name="Form" noresize scrolling="yes">
</frameset>
</html>
(the session ID is assigned at user logon and remains constant until logout)
Any suggestions GREATLY appreciated... thanks!
