How to search a website for perticluar information??/  
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Vicky





PostPosted: 2004-7-21 5:28:00 Top

java-programmer, How to search a website for perticluar information??/ Hi,
I want to develop a program which could search against the web site, let's
say www.xyz.com (some bookseller )
I want to search that website for particular ISBN so that I can know if it's
available!

Any suggestions ?

Thank you,
--Vicky


 
David Johnston





PostPosted: 2004-7-22 12:57:00 Top

java-programmer >> How to search a website for perticluar information??/ Vicky wrote:

> Hi,
> I want to develop a program which could search against the web site, let's
> say www.xyz.com (some bookseller )
> I want to search that website for particular ISBN so that I can know if
> it's available!
>
> Any suggestions ?
>
> Thank you,
> --Vicky

If it is going to be a major site like barnesandnoble.com or amazon.com you
could always use the google api.

It is really easy to use and would make for simple code.

-David
 
nathanz





PostPosted: 2004-7-23 10:25:00 Top

java-programmer >> How to search a website for perticluar information??/ Will Amazon work for you? They have great web service/XML api's:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/104-7721414-5560720?node=3435361

If not, I've done a lot of screen scraping using JTidy to convert HTML
into XHTML, which I put into an XML parser and use XPath to extract
data.

//Nathan

"Vicky" <email***@***.com> wrote in message news:<cdk2pm$d2e$email***@***.com>...
> Hi,
> I want to develop a program which could search against the web site, let's
> say www.xyz.com (some bookseller )
> I want to search that website for particular ISBN so that I can know if it's
> available!
>
> Any suggestions ?
>
> Thank you,
> --Vicky