Tear Info from html page

[Perad]

Please... someone... there has got to be a quick way to do this. I just spent 20 minutes doing this and made absolutely NO progress what-so-ever.

 

Programming solution is therefore required.

 

I have attached the html page.

 

Look at this.

 

<td colspan="1" rowspan="1" width="50%" align="" valign="top"><br><b><font size="4">Angola 1972 100 Escudos UNC Bank Note Money<br><br>Price= US$9.79</font></b><br>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="2" width="50%" align="center" valign="top"><table summary="image table" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="174" style=""><tr>

<td align="center" valign="top">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td align="center"><img width="149" src="images/149_Angola_4.jpg" alt="" style="" border="0" height="140"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr></table></td>
</tr>
<tr align="" valign="">
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1" width="50%" align="" valign="top"><FORM action=https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr method=post target=paypal><INPUT type=image alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!" src="https://www.paypal.com//en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border=0 name=submit> <IMG height=1 alt="" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width=1 border=0> <INPUT type=hidden value=1 name=add> <INPUT type=hidden value=_cart name=cmd> <INPUT type=hidden [email protected] name=business> <INPUT type=hidden value="Angola 1972 100 Escudos UNC Bank Note Money" name=item_name P55c? UNC 0?> <INPUT type=hidden value=9.79 name=amount> <INPUT type=hidden value=2 name=no_shipping> <INPUT type=hidden value=1 name=no_note> <INPUT type=hidden value=USD name=currency_code> <INPUT type=hidden value=PP-ShopCartBF name=bn> </FORM><br>

</td>

 

I need to extract the following data.

 

Angola 1972 100 Escudos UNC Bank Note Money

9.79

<FORM action=https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr method=post target=paypal><INPUT type=image alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!" src="https://www.paypal.com//en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border=0 name=submit> <IMG height=1 alt="" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width=1 border=0> <INPUT type=hidden value=1 name=add> <INPUT type=hidden value=_cart name=cmd> <INPUT type=hidden [email protected] name=business> <INPUT type=hidden value="Angola 1972 100 Escudos UNC Bank Note Money" name=item_name P55c? UNC 0?> <INPUT type=hidden value=9.79 name=amount> <INPUT type=hidden value=2 name=no_shipping> <INPUT type=hidden value=1 name=no_note> <INPUT type=hidden value=USD name=currency_code> <INPUT type=hidden value=PP-ShopCartBF name=bn> </FORM>

149_Angola_4.jpg

 

As the code varies some what it will be tricky to find this all. Ideally I would like the following to happen.

 

1) Use reg/ex or some programming voodoo to hack out the above 4 bits of data.

2) Place it in an array.

3) If all 4 cannot be found, add whatever can be found to a fail array for manual insertion.

 

Honestly, I do not think this is as hard is it looks. The hardest bit seems to be price especially later on when there is more than one dollar sign. In which case I think the number would have to be added to the fail array for checking. I would greatly appreciate it if someone could show me how to go about doing this. I have to do this to several sites looking for different criteria.

 

I was roped into doing this for a friend of a friend. I am not even being paid

 

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[Stephen68]

Can you change the HTML page? just add tokens in and use then just grab all the information between them.

This is how I use to do this kind of stuff back in my perl days

[Perad]

Thanks for the reply. I would need to do this over a thousand times. Seems very time consuming.

 

Is there a way to strip out all html elements barring the following.

 

<form></form> and anything in between

<img>

 

If there was a way to do this I may have a better chance of making this work.