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15th July, 2011 at 18:07:43 -

I am trying to pull phone numbers from the yellow pages. I don't know anything about making spiders or how they work and our programmer isn't available so I'm either going to have to pull the numbers manually, or use MMF2 to do it, since thats the only thing I know.

The link looks like this

http://anywhoyp.yellowpages.com/findaperson?fap_terms%5Bfirst%5D= jason&fap_terms%5Blast%5D=baldwin&fap_terms%5Bcity%5D=71112&fap_terms%5Bstate%5D=LA&fap_terms%5Bsearchtype%5D=phone

Without formatting - http://anywhoyp.yellowpages.com/findaperson?fap_terms%5Bfirst%5D=jason&fap_terms%5Blast%5D=baldwin&fap_terms%5Bcity%5D=71112&fap_terms%5Bstate%5D=LA&fap_terms%5Bsearchtype%5D=phone


I have a list of names, and they all have the same zip code so I can just change the names in that link to pull up the correct page. My question is - is there any way that I can search each URL individually, using a names list, and output the phone number to a list in MMF?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 
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15th July, 2011 at 18:53:10 -

Get object and string parser.

That'll do ya!

 
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15th July, 2011 at 19:24:40 -

Thanks, that helped a lot.

Is there any way to set up string parser to pull phone numbers? I tried inputting the text from the get object into the rich text object and pulling the line number that the phone number is on, but it doesn't seem to jump to the correct line numbers.

 
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15th July, 2011 at 20:35:04 -

The source contains this element:

<p class="phone">
318-752-2877
</p>

Just find the substring "<p class=""phone"">", and then copy every character after that until you get to "<".


eg.

+ Whenever
-> Get URL: whatever...

+ On get complete
-> set startChar to "Find(Received$( "Get object" ), "<p class=""phone"">", 0)"
-> start loop "extract"-1 times

+ on loop "extract"
-> set curChar to "Mid$(Received$( "Get object" ), startChar + 18 +LoopIndex("extract"), 1)"

+ on loop "extract"
+ curChar <> "<"
-> set phoneNo to phoneNo + curChar

+ on loop "extract"
+ curChar = "<"
-> stop loop "extract"

I really hope you're going to use this responsibly, and not make a lot of nuisance calls to people (I get seriously pissed off with telepests).

Edited by Sketchy

 
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15th July, 2011 at 21:23:00 -

Are you using the original string parser, or string parser 2?

I'm stuck here

+ On get complete
-> set startChar to "Find(Received$( "Get object" ), "<p class=""phone"">", 0)"

I'm using string parser 2, which doesn't allow me to use the "find" function in an expression?

 
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15th July, 2011 at 23:38:25 -

Neither. It's a built-in feature.

 
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16th July, 2011 at 16:20:51 -

Thankyou

 
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16th July, 2011 at 16:46:28 -


Originally Posted by GamesterXIII


http://anywhoyp.yellowpages.com/findaperson? fap_terms%5Bfirst%5D=jason&fap_terms%5Blast%5D=baldwin&fap_terms%5Bcity%5D=71112&fap_terms%5Bstate%5D=LA&fap_terms%5Bsearchtype%5D=phone



That made me lol

 
- Ok, you must admit that was the most creative cussing this site have ever seen -

Make some more box arts damnit!
http://create-games.com/forum_post.asp?id=285363

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16th July, 2011 at 21:58:57 -

I was actually waiting for this . . .aha

 
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