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<h1>WebScraper User Manual</h1>
<p><img src="ScreenShot.gif" width="306" height="338"></p>
<p>This program will download financial data from Yahoo and place it in an Access
database. You may then use this database as a source of data for evaluating
and tracking your investments, and screening for new investment candidates.
You can use standard Microsoft Office tools to move data between the database,
Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, and even PowerPoint presentation should
you need to.</p>
<p>The program is designed to run in the background, which allows you to use your
computer normally while the scraping process is continuing, and to easily pause
the process to do other work on your machine. Even on broadband connections,
collection of a full database can take several hours, and this ensures that
your machine is usable through the process. </p>
<p>To use the program, you must be online, so that the program can get the web
pages. You simply check off which elements of data you wish to collect on the
top of the form and then press the <b>Start</b> button. While the system is
running, you must leave your mouse inside the form for the collection to continue.
If you do need to do something else, the program will pause automatically, and
will continue running once you return the mouse to the inside of the form.</p>
<p>When the program is running, it will update the information shown in the lower
half of the display to give you an idea of what's going on and how long it will
be until it finishes processing the information you have selected. </p>
<p>The first row of data shows you how many records have been processed and how
many remain. </p>
<p>The second row shows you the number of records that were <i>successfully</i>
recovered, and what percent of the total number of records that was. </p>
<p>The third row shows you how long WebScraper has been running and an estimate
of how long it will take to finish scraping the current data.</p>
<p>The fourth row tells you how long it took to get the last record.</p>
<p>The fifth row shows you the ticker symbol of the current record and a progress
bar that shows how far along the system is in scraping the current data. The
background of the ticker symbol will be red if the scraper could not get any
data, and will be green if it succeeded in getting data.</p>
<p>There is a text display immediately above the buttons that shows a scrolling
label identifying which type of data is currently being scraped.</p>
<p>The buttons at the bottom allow you to start, pause, and stop the scraping
operations and exit the program. The start button will automatically change
it's label between "Start" and "Pause" depending on whether
or not the scraper is running. Remember, you must leave your mouse inside the
form for the scraper to run automatically, or, if you need to do something else,
go ahead, the scraper will automatically stop and wait for you to come back.</p>
<p>Once the scraper has completed operation, your CorporateData.mdb database will
contain all of the information scraped off the site. Do with it what you will,
but remember,.the data is for your personal use only.</p>
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