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Subject: Terminal Emulation and Web Scraper software
Category: Computers > Software
Asked by: michaellee09-ga
List Price: $20.00
Posted: 15 Feb 2006 11:14 PST
Expires: 18 Feb 2006 04:48 PST
Question ID: 446222
I am trying to find software that will allow me to connect to a
mainframe computer via dial up modem and VT100 terminal emulation and
then to repeatedly navigate through pages, perhaps by inserting a list
of stock numbers, and screen scrape data from each page into a useable
format, either a database, text file, etc.  I have authorization to
view the data but there is no mechanism for downloading it and no
changes are contemplated.  I do not need to deploy this for multiple
users, etc.
If there are no turnkey software solutions, I need to find a developer
that can program or modify software to accomplish this purpose.  I
know there are a number of software packages that can data scrape from
websites but I need to naviagte through dial up terminal emulation.
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Subject: Re: Terminal Emulation and Web Scraper software
From: crythias-ga on 15 Feb 2006 18:23 PST
 
Hyperterm is built-in (or easily added) ... you can turn on logging,
but no real automation.
ZOC http://tucows.com/preview/195271
or Telix www.telix.com would be high on my get-this list.
http://www.cdrom.com/category.php%5Bid%5D286%5BSiteID%5Dsimtel.net for
add-ons, including scripting.
Or ProComm Plus

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