Hi Bryan, The code for getting the data from the html-page at that exact url would be as simple as :
put URL "http://www.cboe.com/Common/PageViewer.asp?HEAD=Market+Statistics+Summary&SEC=3&DIR=TTMDMarketStat&Calendar=1&Dy=26&Mo=9&Yr=2002"; into tHTMLData You would then of course have to go through the information you get, strip off the header information, and work your way through the body. If you would want the data of some other day, you could try the result of : put "29" into tDay put "9" into tMonth put "2002" into tYear put URL ("http://www.cboe.com/Common/PageViewer.asp?HEAD=Market+Statistics+Summary&SEC=3&DIR=TTMDMarketStat&Calendar=1&Dy="; & tDay & "&Mo=" & tMonth & "&Yr=" & tYear) into tHTMLData Parsing the data to get your information out of it, is a whole different set of fun. After having just had a peek at the HTML-source from within IE, I'd suggest you try something similar to: put lineOffset("<pre", tHTMLData) + 1 into tFirstLine put lineOffset("</pre", tHTMLData) - 1 into tLastLine get line tFirstLine to tLastLine of tHTMLData For this particular page, that should nicely split off all the HTML-code and leave you with the data that interests you. If you're having problems getting the data, you might follow Dave's suggestion to put a user-agent in the header. Hope this helped, Jan Schenkel. "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." (De Rochefoucald) --- Bryan McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah, I see. I think. But as I've never had to do this > before, and presuming > I'm willing to slog through and experiment, what > does the code for this > look like? > > do I do a POST and then pass the URL each time for > each? > > how do I assemble all these header fields and pass > them? are they all CRLF > separated along the lines of HEAD&CRLF&SEC&CRLF... > that i concatenate > together? what do I so once i've passed them? i'm > afraid i'm a total babe > in the woods with this sort of thing. > > btw this script is being written strictly as a > personal convenience for > doing some math transforms on the data sets which > are totally public. > unfortunately CBOE by making a handy calendar based > script driven interface > for the casual browser has created a nightmare to > get at the data. and > oddly there isn't even a "pay" alternative for this. > you have to go to the > site and click on the calendar interface to load > each day. the alternative > is hand-posting these into excel which with months > of data quickly becomes > a horrible thing to do. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
