Ray Champagne wrote: > aight....so - how does one go about scraping a page? Never really had > any experience with it. I suppose I could hack through and figure out > what to do, but can you briefly explain how you do it on that page?
Well, aside from screen scraping being possibly illegal, it's a huge pain. Basically you have to CFHTTP the page, then perform a bunch of finds to find the scores and mid() them out .. and your screen scraping is based on consistent html. I used to do this with Amazon back in the late 90s and Amazon changed their html on a weekly basis, which meant I had to revamp the screen scraping code. Rick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:220220 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
