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mr_smith
30th November 2008, 17:43
Hi

anyone know of any web data extraction tools? or know how to extract data into excel from certain websites.

John
30th November 2008, 18:00
Copy and paste? :D

I think you're going to have to be more specific. :)

Welcome to the forum.

Win2Win
30th November 2008, 18:53
It's complicated, and depends on the code the site is written in, and these days is usually a few mixed in (::swear new RP site!!).

If you can learn PHP or VB you could parse & extract the data you wamt, otherwise you can use software like Web Content Extractor but it is :censored: complicated to use. Much quicker writing your own code as some of us on here do, or pay a freelancer.

mr_smith
1st December 2008, 13:48
Ahhh much appreciated, i best find myself a freelancer then :-)

Regards to Rpost, was it possible to extract data from the co.uk website? and is it going to be very hard to extract data from the new .com website?

I have noticed that the new .com website does not have all the data as the old co.uk, anybody know if this will change? i Have emailed them repeatedly about it but have yet to have an answer.

Thanks again.