Show Bid Request retrieving information from tables on the web Bid Request Id: 53043 Bookmark in my 'To Do' list Posted by: A. Walter (64 ratings) (Software buyer rating 10) Non-action Ratio: Above Average - 26.72% Buyer Security Verifications: Excellent Approved on: Mar 15, 2003 8:12:26 PM EDT Bidding Closes: Mar 18, 2003 8:10:44 PM EDT Viewed (by coders): 88 times Deadline: 3/23/2003 TIME EXPIRED Phase: 100% of work completed and accepted. Coder has been paid. Max Accepted Bid: Bidding is closed Project Type: Personal Project / Homework Help Bidding Type: Open Auction Categories: Web, Windows, Language Specific, Platforms, Visual Basic Enter chat room for this bid request (0 active users at Sep 1, 2003 8:59:27 AM EDT) to seperate out the rows and Description: Enclosed is the sample project and the sample web page to work with. What I need is when the button is clicked, it needs to retrieve the information from the tables. The user would type in a web address and the first row and first column of the table. Then when it finds that word, then it will go through the entire table and for each row print the information in a seperate line. For each cell, the cell text and tab. Then in comments, show how the column number for each cell was obtained. Once it gets to the end of the table, then save and close the file. It must be done programmically. Probably you will be working with the Tables, TR, and TD object. The sample web page is what will be used to work off of. For the example, the name to retrieve will be Inventory. The first line would then print (Nuteriors Accuform) 16-40 or 16-43 tab, 77 84 Buick Cadillac Olds Arm Rest Cap b tab, etc. The last row in this situation that would be written to the text file would be 1044, 1985 to 1991 Porsche 944 NEW Dash Pad Cap, etc. It must work for other sites as well assuming they use tables to organize the information and they use to seperate out the columns. I already have code in place to make sure the page is fully loaded before the function even runs. Deliverables: The complete source code to show how to extract the table information. Platform: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP Must be 100% finished and received by buyer on: Mar 23, 2003 EDT Deadline legal notes: All times are expressed in the time zone of the site EDT (UT - 5). If the buyer omitted a time, then the deadline is 11:59:59 PM EDT on the indicated date. Additional Files: This bid request includes IMPORTANT additional attached files. Please download and read fully before bidding. Remember that contacting the other party outside of the site (by email, phone, etc.) on all business projects < $500 (before the buyer's money is escrowed) is a violation of both the software buyer and seller agreements. We monitor all site activity for such violations and can instantly expel transgressers on the spot, so we thank you in advance for your cooperation. If you notice a violation please help out the site and report it. Thanks for your help.   Bidding/Comments: All monetary amounts on the site are in United States dollars. Rent a Coder is a closed auction, so coders can only see their own bids and comments. Buyers can view every posting made on their bid requests. See all rejected bids (and all comments) Name   Bid Amount    Date   Coder Rating   This bid was accepted by the buyer! Aaron Young (25 ratings) in Red Wing, Minnesota United States Bid id: 569,928   $50 (USD) Mar 15, 2003 9:12:02 PM EDT  9.96 (Excellent)     Here's an example of the functionality you've requested. I'm not entirely clear on what you mean by showing the 'cell, cell text and tab' and 'how the column no. was obtained.' In this example, I parse out the Inventory rows, to show 'Inv No.', 'Description' and the 'Item ID' which is the id used to 'use' the item. I'm placing them in a listbox for demonstation purposes, but this can easily be adapted to output to a text file. The website, appears to be a secure one, therefore logging in would be a requirement. If this is the case, supplying a URL to the item list may not be sufficient, you may need to adapt the code to log into the site before navigating to the main list page. (I've not included this in my bid as it wasn't specified as a requirement.) Also, there appears to be more than one page of inventory. This example doesn't parse more than one page at a time. If you require it to parse ALL pages and you require a login process to be built in, that will incur an additional cost and is not included in my bid. Another consideration... You mentioned, 'it should work for other sites.', I'm not sure how reasonable this request is as the method by which the data is parsed may vary greatly from site to site. In fact the code may need updating should the 'example' site change in a significant way. -Regards, - Aaron. Attached File           See 2 private reply(ies) to/from Aaron Young.