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I have a html on my screen. I need to capture (scrap) specific data from it and place that data in a db. Then I need to recall and reformat that data and display back to the user.
The initial html is from a third party site. Web-scraping link|improve this question asked Mar 4 '11 at 22:43Todd1.
It exists a great tool for this: OutWit Hub, as a Firefox extension. It is dedicated to scraping data over the internet and putting it into a database.
You have a number of technologies on your side for parsing data from an HTML webpage: Java JSON API takes the HTML and returns the scraped data to a StringBuilder object which can be used to store in a database PHP There are some parsers available in its standard library like libxml2 which can do the extraction, or, you can use the easy but horribly inefficient way of writing a regular expression in PHP. Python There are built-in classes which you can easily instantiate to parse the data. There's a lot of details which can be shared here, but, I've just given a head-start!
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