On 5/12/10 6:53 AM, Gregory McIntyre wrote:
Anyone have any ideas on the best way to take business names and turn
them into addresses of those businesses, via web API, scraping or any
other means?
Assuming the business name is Australian I would start with the White
Pages. Using mechanic a simple get request, some xpath and or nokogiri
should yield the
address you need.
For instance you can grab the New South Wales Bar Association's address
from the following URL.
http://www.whitepages.com.au/busSearch.do?subscriberName=NSW Bar
Association&location=
They also use some sort of autocomplete at
http://www.whitepages.com.au/autosuggest/autoSuggest.x
Not sure how useful that would be.
Hope this helps.
Matt.
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