grabbing information off of a website (autotrader.ca)

[chopperdudes]

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...

[chopperdudes]

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