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chopperdudes

Sat May 07, 2011 1:20 am


grabbing information off of a website (autotrader.ca)

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well... i've been looking up used cars recently, and was going on autotrader.ca.  i was looking at the massive amounts of entries on there and was picking out the listings i'm interested for each of the car models i'm interested, and soon enough i have ten tabs opened for each model, and entering all the information into excel seems like a daunting task... 

is there ANY way to download all the info for a specific query?  i.e. model-honda, year-2000-2011, price... etc?  i'm thinking of writing up a program which will rank the listings so i'll know which ones to call first.  i.e. calculate the cost in dollars per km under 200k... or something like that.

then again... i can always open each page and view source and save those files and go from there...


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chopperdudes

Sat May 07, 2011 1:36 am


RE:grabbing information off of a website (autotrader.ca)

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actually ignore this topic, wasn't as bad as i thought dl'ing the sources.  open all the tabs, ctrl s, enter, ctrl w, repeat.

then just somehow look thru those html files :D

