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Aspie_Chav
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21 Dec 2011, 6:44 am

Need a good screen scraper. I currently use FBA to list item.s and there is no decent software to do this( I have looked hard).

I need a screen scraper that will automate what can be achieved by multiple link and button pressing needed to get the same result.

For example to look at a books sales rank I have to click 2 linked to get page with that info on it. Using Amazon software is not nice. For FBA the page where I can reprice doesn't have a price of the competition .



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21 Dec 2011, 6:50 am

I don't think you need a screen scraper for web pages. Autohotkey would do it.



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21 Dec 2011, 7:50 am

The problem is, data I need is spread across multiple pages
example amazon has

A foo book, Isbn 415484994, price $10.00, button for book descripotion
Joe blogs book isbn 49849489, price $20.00, button for book descripotion


I want something like
A foo book, Isbn 415484994, price$10.00, cheast price $00.01, sales rank 40k
Joe blogs book isbn 49849489, price $20.00, cheast price $00.01, sales rank 14k

I don't want to click on a button to get
cheast price $00.01, sales rank 40k

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