randydg Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 Hi, Let me explain I need either a way to search whitepages to display addresses in a city but it wont allow me it wants a street name, I dont know the street name just the city. I dont want to search by a name cause its for my work, they dont want to buy anything to do this with and im stuck going up and down every address and saving the info into excel. If the above cant be done It would be nice to have a database with the information thats atleast somewhat current. Any help would be very welcome. It is very tiring doing this by hand. thanks, Randy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 The search sends info through HTTP. For example I just searched Philadelphia http://yellowpages.superpages.com/listings.jsp?SRC=comwp&sid=12213&S=&search=Find+It&T=philadelphia&R=N&PG=L&STYPE=S T is equal to the city. I'm not sure what you're searching for but if you have a list then you could just loop through them, attach the relevant variables to the URL, and cURL the page or grab its contents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CroNiX Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 Also, if you want to remain legal, I suggest reading the Terms of Service before automating this process. Most informational sites like these have statements disallowing the use of a script to obtain information from their service. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 Legal...? That's no fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CroNiX Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 Legal...? That's no fun! No, but it helps you stay in business if that matters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 Legal...? That's no fun! No, but it helps you stay in business if that matters Very true... Although you never receive punishment for the first offense, everyone knows that. It was just us, "misinterpreting the rules". Surely we'll never do it again. :'( @randydg: Let us know what's route you want to take so we get this bad boy going, I'm kind of interested in this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randydg Posted December 30, 2008 Author Share Posted December 30, 2008 Lets go with it. Here is an example: I need every name phone and address for san augustine,tx So when I search on whitepages.com it says street name required but I would like the results without a street name, just by city. If only whitepages would remove the requirement of street name I would beable to get what I need thanks, randy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randydg Posted January 12, 2009 Author Share Posted January 12, 2009 well? any luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randydg Posted February 17, 2009 Author Share Posted February 17, 2009 What happened? I still need help with this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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