[ChubChub]

Greetings all,

I am in the midst of a research project and am in need of some wisdom. I am required to surf to a number of websites and look at various forms in an effort to locate specific fields and extract the values that are available for users to select (ie. values in drop-down lists, radio buttons, check boxes, etc.). This is very manual work (clicking and typing into word or excel) and I thought that someone might be able to give me some pointers on how to make this easier.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Kevin
aka. ChubChub

[tomdkat]

Are you looking for a script that will "sniff out" form fields of certain types (drop-down lists, radio buttons, etc)?

Peace...

[ChubChub]

Originally Posted by tomdkat

Are you looking for a script that will "sniff out" form fields of certain types (drop-down lists, radio buttons, etc)?

Peace...

Not really. I need to look at the pages myself to determine if it is what my client is targetting. But when I find a drop-down list (field) that has 50 possible choices (values) in it, I'm having to manually typing them into an excel/word doc. Ideally, I'd like to quickly extract these 50 values (cut and paste like) and then moved onto the next field/form.

Any ideas?

Kevin

[tomdkat]

Ok, if you're having to view each page manually, then when you find a candidate page you can look at the HTML source, search on some keywords (like "SELECT" or "OPTION") and when you find the appropriate element (drop-down list or radio buttons), you can copy/paste the HTML defining the element somewhere. At least that way, you won't have to manually enter the values themselves.

Peace...