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pftg41
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Hi Guys First Post here i am using the trial of winautomation thought i would try my hand at a simple amazon best seller scrape using the download from web function thought i was having trouble with the regular expression i was using but after further investigation i found the text downloaded into the varible is coded or something some info is there and some not???? which is (In my Opinion) is impossible to parse correctly not sure if i´m doing anything wrong Your thoughts would be i´m sure most helpful

Also i have been reading the forum and saw the piece on the web recorder will this be something like Ubot funtionality i have not used Ubot as they don´t do a trial but it looks good all be it little unstable at the moment if winautomation and ubot was to be one program all i can say is WOW as always your thoughts would be i´m sure most helpful

Glad to be on the forum and thanks for having me

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Re: Amazon Scrape

Hello and welcome to the forum!

In order to be able to give you concrete information about the scraping process that you mentioned, we will need a specific URL or, at least, an html file with the source code of the page. This way we will be able to see if the scraping process is possible with the "Download from Web" action.

Regarding the "Web Recorder" feature that you 've read, the ppl from WinAutomation are rather secretive about it. As far as I know, they did not release any kind of information regarding the exact nature of the recorder (how will it work, what browsers will it support, will it have specific requirements etc). However, my previous experience with WinAutomation tells me that whenever they get into a new area of automation they usually excel in it, so, my expectations are really high for the web recorder that they are working on.

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Re: Amazon Scrape

Hi D.M.Altizer

Thanks for your reply the url is http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/ref=pd_ts_b_ldr

when i use the download from web funtion is seems to dowload the page but not all info is there like it is coded or something

what i wanted to do was go to amazon best sellers scrape all caterogary url´s loop through next page grab sub caterogy´s loop through all pages and just get title name to all products on there in a list ( i Don´t expect you to do this for me) but expressions i have used on other sites will not work on amazon??????

Hope this is Clear and thanks for your input

Pftg41