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#162364 - 2006-06-03 12:49 AM Re: Web scraping in KiX
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I get the same results as before ERROR 404.

Well the login page was main purpose for this project, but I thought wget can be leveraged for other usage. I guess I'll have to find some other way for secured pages.

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#162365 - 2006-06-03 12:13 PM Re: Web scraping in KiX
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hmm...
not sure you know still what you really want. or I don't know all the details still.

what does it help to get the html of a login page?
you get it once, don't you know it after that?
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#162366 - 2006-06-03 03:31 PM Re: Web scraping in KiX
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The way Pearly keeps dancing around the truth, I think there is some malfeasance here. It looks to me that he is trying to steal passwords off the logon page.
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#162367 - 2006-06-03 07:32 PM Re: Web scraping in KiX
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could be, could be.
I'm still trusting and think that he is thinking the problem at hand too much piece by piece and not seeing the bigger picture and the steps needed.
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#162368 - 2006-06-05 07:08 PM Re: Web scraping in KiX
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Quote:

The way Pearly keeps dancing around the truth, I think there is some malfeasance here. It looks to me that he is trying to steal passwords off the logon page.




Hehe, unfortunately this is not the case. As said before, this is for my job as a QA Engineer. We parse HTML all the time, but the methods we use aren't the most efficient and efficacious. The reason for pulling the source from the login page is to retrieve the dll versions posted on the page. Developers display the versions and I need this for my testing validation. With the code I posted in my first post of this thread, I was able to parse HTML Tables once past the login page, but it's only working in VBA/VBS (see my other thread : http://www.kixtart.org/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=162816&an=0&page=0#162816)

So all in all, I figured out how to pull data from HTML Tables and can access the dll versions. I can live with this for now. I'm not sure if wget or KiX COM is capable of accessing secured pages or possibly hook onto an existing browser that is already past the login page?

I hope that answers what I'm trying to do.

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#162369 - 2006-06-05 07:27 PM Re: Web scraping in KiX
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yes, and yes.
you can use things like internetexplorer.application to get 100% IE compatibility.
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#162370 - 2006-06-05 07:32 PM Re: Web scraping in KiX
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I know how to hook onto an existing browser, but then what do you do to access the source?
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#162371 - 2006-06-05 08:55 PM Re: Web scraping in KiX
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can't really access the source.
you need to access the elements and their data.
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#162372 - 2006-06-05 09:58 PM Re: Web scraping in KiX
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hmm ok. I've converted the code in this thread : http://www.kixtart.org/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=162816&an=0&page=0#162816 to KiX. Any suggestions on how to easily identify parent/children relationships between objects, collections, and such?
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#162373 - 2006-06-05 10:08 PM Re: Web scraping in KiX
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children you get via .items collection.
don't remember can you access the parent as simply as by .parent
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#162374 - 2006-06-05 10:35 PM Re: Web scraping in KiX
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take this example for instance :

$objWinShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")

$obj = $objWinShell.Windows.Item(1).Document.All.Tags("TABLE").Item(6).Rows(0).Cells(0).InnerText

How do I know the relationship between all these objects/collections/properties? Is there a property that lists all objects/collections/properties for that object?

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#162375 - 2006-06-06 12:39 AM Re: Web scraping in KiX
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DOM questions are probably not in scope in this forum. I will seek my answers on my own. I appreciate all your help Jooel, and NTDOC.
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