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ganmax
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Post by ganmax » Fri Apr 14, 2006 1:20 pm

hai,

I need to collect address from the followin site

http://www.thephonebook.bt.com/publisha ... s.publisha

it is a search page in which we can give the surname and postal code to fetch the result.

i want to give input to the website for surname from a file which will have hundreds of names.

the postal code is fixed "W4".

the result must be in another file.

how to do this

plz help me . am new to iopus

thank u
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Post by Tech Support » Fri Apr 14, 2006 10:38 pm

This task is no problem for the iMacros Scripting Edition and the EXTRACT command.

iMacros comes with several example macros and example VB scripts. As a starting point for your intended application I especially recommend the following macros and scripts:

Example Macros:
Demo-Extract-Table (Save table content to a text file in CSV format)
Demo-Loop-Csv-2-Web (Submit the content of a file to a website, start with LOOP instead of PLAY)

Online Demos: (http://www.iopus.com/iim/support)

1. Read/import values to a website from a file (0.77MB, Amazon.com)
2. Extract values, Part 1: Record macro (1.05MB, Amazon.com)
3. Extract values, Part 2: Edit macro (0.33MB, Amazon.com)
4. Extract values, Part 3: Play&test macro (0.34MB, Amazon.com)


Examples that make use of the Scripting Interface:
"extract-2-file.vbs" (uses wsh-extract-and-fill-part1 and wsh-extract-and-fill-part1 macros)
"extract-2-database.vbs" (store information from a website in a database)
"file-2-web.vbs", "file-2-web-method2.vbs", "database-2-web.vbs" (reads a text file or database and submits the content to a website)
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