Capturing the price from website results page

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Hi, I am wondering if you can capture the list of prices from a website (in my case a book website).

Unlike in the search submission you can see how the code is used but here at the results page you cant.

here is an example:

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?bi=0&bx=off&ds=30&isbn=9781551927282&recentlyadded=all&sortby=2&sts=t&x=46&y=11[^]

I want to capture the first price it comes up and put it into a database along with other information. Is this possible? (im a newbie so it might not be so obvious for me)

I think I have to use gridview in order to this right?

thanks alot.

Posted 16-Dec-13 8:19am

slayasty

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Code.Combustion · Answer 1 · 2013-12-16T08:24:00

You'll need to use a web crawler/screen scraper. The act of crawling, scraping and storing the data is completely separate from displaying this on your page.

Clarification: You'll need to scrape the page for the data you'd like. It may be worth while to see if the website has an API you can consume.

Check out a local example of a web crawler: A Simple Crawler Using C# Sockets

Screen Scraping with C# for ASP.NET[^]

Ravi Bhavnani · Answer 2 · 2013-12-16T08:37:00

Solution 2

I built this framework[^] to solve exactly this class of problems and have used it with much success in this[^] app and this[^] app.

/ravi

Posted 16-Dec-13 8:37am

Ravi Bhavnani

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slayasty 16-Dec-13 14:47pm

mm. ok i shall try that solution out :) thanks alot!