I am a trial subscriber.
I have a site with JAVASCRIPT that I have used iMacros' trial version to scrape. Depending on the number of results, determines the Number of "Next Pages" to grab.
I am able to tag two lines and extract them:
985 Records Found
Page 1 of 5
If I then Text to column in the extraction, I can then have a column with the number of records and the number of pages, which, should theoretically, let me know how many times to have the iMacro select Next.
I have built the extraction.
I have built the code for "Hitting Next 5 times" and caching each page.
How would you suggest I automate the "whole thing."
I am willing to pay $100 for a packaged solution - I give it a date range, it hands me the right number of pages cached for each date!!! Help!!!
Javascript page and automating caching variable number of pg
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Hi,
With the scripting edition you can have a macro that clicks on the Next and if it is not there (or greyed out, or not a link) then it will return a message to say it was not able to click it. This will tell you that there a no more pages.
It seems you have all the macros you need for this solution, you just need to have a script to control how they are called, incorporating the above checking of the return code from the Next macro.
If you really want a solution that calculates how many times it needs to click next and only clicks it that many times, then you are looking at a more complicated script to parse the initial extracted values.
Daniel Kerr
iOpus Support
With the scripting edition you can have a macro that clicks on the Next and if it is not there (or greyed out, or not a link) then it will return a message to say it was not able to click it. This will tell you that there a no more pages.
It seems you have all the macros you need for this solution, you just need to have a script to control how they are called, incorporating the above checking of the return code from the Next macro.
If you really want a solution that calculates how many times it needs to click next and only clicks it that many times, then you are looking at a more complicated script to parse the initial extracted values.
Daniel Kerr
iOpus Support
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Hannes, Tech Support
Hello,
now that you have everything in place, you should probably have a look at the example scripts that come with iMacros.
Using VBS it should not be a big deal, to call your macros in the right way (with conditionals, etc.).
If you want us to write the script, please open a support ticket (http://www.iopus.com/service/support/). We will then send you a custom quote (which will come to less than $100, I suppose).
Best,
Hannes
now that you have everything in place, you should probably have a look at the example scripts that come with iMacros.
Using VBS it should not be a big deal, to call your macros in the right way (with conditionals, etc.).
If you want us to write the script, please open a support ticket (http://www.iopus.com/service/support/). We will then send you a custom quote (which will come to less than $100, I suppose).
Best,
Hannes
sent in a ticket
hannes,
I have sent in a ticket and referenced this board.
Please let me know what else I can send - take a look at ticket - it is pretty extensive.
Eddie
I have sent in a ticket and referenced this board.
Please let me know what else I can send - take a look at ticket - it is pretty extensive.
Eddie