in reply to how do I extract contact data from websites?
Welcome!
I'm going to be presumptuous, and assume that you mean one of two things: having a form on your web site, which has contact information that you want to then get locally, or having a spider-like thing that extracts specific kinds of data (addresses, phone numbers, email) from many websites. If you are talking about the latter, I can't help too much, because I haven't done that sort of thing (although I could pretty easily figure out how - but I'm sure many monks around here would be better).
If it's the former:
What you need in that instance, is a CGI script (there are a few out there, but they aren't hard to write either - that's how I started on the perl journey) that takes data from the form, and, say, either drops it into a file (maybe delimited) or emails it to you? Is that what you have in mind? With the CGI module, it's a very easy sort of script to write, and I could certainly post mine, if you are interested.
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Re: Re: how do I extract contact data from websites?
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 13, 2002 at 23:33 UTC |