Show Bid Request retrieving information from a web page Bid Request Id: 55520 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 31, 2003 12:51:06 AM EDT Bidding Closes: Apr 2, 2003 12:50:29 AM EDT Viewed (by coders): 68 times Deadline: 4/3/2003 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, Visual Basic Enter chat room for this bid request (0 active users at Sep 1, 2003 9:01:00 AM EDT) Description: Included is a site where I need to grab information from the table. This page for example has 50 rows. However, in reality, there may be less than 50 rows. The information needed are 1. email addresses 2. the link associated with the email address 3. invoice number 4. description 5. auctionid after the ( and before the,) I cannot include an example of what the first row would be because the site does not allow email addresses to be used in the description. The information must be retrieved programmically, not by simply typing in the information. Can be done by using the webbrowser component or API. The information from the table can either be saved as a tab delimited text file or put into a listbox. If its in a list box, then it must be obvious what columns are what, either fixed width or using a listview. Deliverables: The source code to retrieve information from the table. Must be completed within 24 hours after accepting the bid. Platform: Windows 2000 Must be 100% finished and received by buyer on: Apr 3, 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! GribFritz (77 ratings) in College Point, New York United States Bid id: 595,708   $50 (USD) Mar 31, 2003 12:57:44 AM EDT  9.93 (Excellent)     A. Walter I've done several projects like this before, so I won't bother sending you a sample. A look at some of my past completed RAC projects should give you an idea that I know how to extract info from HTML pages. My bid may be higher than others, but it's a question of wanting it done cheaply or wanting it done correctly. Many coders can do this for you, but I can do it so it will always work (even if the site changes its layout). Instead of hard-coding the information, I would put it in textboxes that would be made available to you. So if the site changes, you can change what the program looks for. Fully commented so you WILL be able to do for yourself in the future. Even if you don't know anything about programming. If anything goes wrong with the program, I stand behind my code and will fix any errors ASAP. My ratings speak for themselves. Thomas Tustin           See 1 private reply(ies) to/from GribFritz.