Re: [Lynx-dev] pse help.

[David Woolley]

karsten harazim wrote:
> wonder if it seems to be possible to extract information from existing 
> websites into some exel document like extracting all names, adresses, 
> phone numbers, email, url etc from pages like 
> that: http://www.muenster.de/schulen-alle-1.html

Technically, you need something like XSLT to do this, although you are 
rather dependent on the author actually writing HTML according to true 
spirit of HTML, which is rather rare.  You may need to convert the HTML 
to XML syntax, before using XSLT.

For the actual download, you would be better using one of the specialist 
tools, like curl or wget.

However, actually doing so is likely to be illegal.  Even if you the 
information is a pure collection of facts, in countries like the UK, the 
would be covered by a database copyright. At least one reason why Lynx 
can get blocked form sites is that it is often used to extract 
information without the surrounding advertising/branding.

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