in reply to how do I extract contact data from websites?

Hi Meisamhe,

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
    If you know out how to extract addresses, phone numbers and emails from websites, then please don't tell people who ask. Unless you think that the world needs more spam.