Thanks a lot for your help Shantanoo. As I have no programming skills, can someone make it and for how much (see the hint from Shantanoo)?
Thanks very much. Kind regards, Andreas -----Original Message----- From: Shantanoo Mahajan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: samedi, 11. novembre 2006 20:15 To: Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List Cc: Andreas Pigni Subject: Re: Looking for a perl programmer +++ Andreas Pigni [PLUG] [10-11-06 23:42 +0100]: | | Dear All, | ? | I wondered if you could help me for the following task. First, I just | mention that I am a student here in Law in Switzerland. | ? | I would like to have in a single document (preferably excel) a list of | all the European patent attorneys with contact details. This information | is available from the internet. All these attorneys can be found at the | following link: http://www.european-patent-office.org/reps/search.html | ? | It seems that there are 8353 members. | ? | Thus, it seems that perl could be useful to fetch all the entries from | 0001 to 8353: | ? | http://www.european-patent-office.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/vi00n006/reps/deta | il.pl.cgi?id=001 to | http://www.european-patent-office.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/vi00n006/reps/deta | il.pl.cgi?id=8353 | ? | I wondered if someone could write the script for me, provide it to me | and also provide an excel table with all the entries with all the | contact details in there for each attorney (half a day of work?). Of | course, I would pay the programmer for that. Please let me know how much | that would cost me (student price if possible?). | ? | Please let me know as soon as possible if someone (you, a friend?) could | do this task for me. | ? | Thanks a lot for your help. | ? | Kind regards, | ? | Andreas | ? | ? Any takers? Hint: - get all the files e.g. perl -e 'for($i=1;$i<=...;$i++) { $str="wget http://www.european-patent-office.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/vi00n006/reps/deta il.pl.cgi?id=$i"; `$str`;}' - extract the data cat <file> | perl -e 'for(<>) { if(/<BLOCKQUOTE>/.../<\/BLOCKQUOTE>/) { print }}' Do some more parsing and store in .csv format which can be read in excel. Shantanoo -- Sometimes you'll be on a winning streak and every-thing will click; take maximum advantage. When the opposite is true, hold steady and wait it out. -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
