Re: First day on the list question
Re: First day on the list question
- Subject: Re: First day on the list question
- From: "S. J. Cunningham" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2015 05:00:19 -0400
On Oct 4, 2015, at 2:30 AM, Don wrote:
>
>
> Hi guys
>
> Just joined the list.
>
> I'd like to find a way to cherry pick some data from web pages.
> The web pages tend to hold still and keep a consistent format
> while the data on them changes to / in the form...
>
> Item Qty 15digitSku
>
> 1 39 15digitSku#here
>
> 2 197 15digitSku#here
>
> 3 40 15digitSku#here
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> 4 38 15digitSku#here
>
> There is no need to do anything with the data directly... just take
> it from "Point A" and move it to "Point B"... ideal choice being to
> port them straight into an OpenOffice spreadsheet / database.
>
> It's ridiculous to try to do that by hand. I need to do a lot of these
> ... perhaps currently about the same 500 items each day... even
> perhaps updating the same list more than once in a day.
>
> Can Applescript do this?
>
> Thanks
> Don
Welcome to the List.
I'd look at a combination of iMacros (http://imacros.net/overview) and AppleScript. iMacros is a free browser extension and is designed explicitly to do this type of thing. Doing it with AppleScript alone would be quite tedious, probably using the Unix curl command.
Steve
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OS X 10.6.8, AppleScript 2.1.2
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