October 19, 2011 at 4:50 am
Hi guys
I recently completed a package to download files from an ftp site but at the moment i have a new task.
Downloading files from a website, the website doesnt contain actual links to the files tho. It contains a kind of tree like node and after a couple of clicks of a + sign u drop down to the actual zip file. I think they use a javascript onclick event to download the file when you click on it.
How do i create a package to logon to the website and navigate through those nodes to download the actual files?
October 19, 2011 at 5:24 am
It does sound like Web Scraping requirement (absolutely Front End).
Per my understanding you can't handle this requirement until you get the final URL for the files.
October 19, 2011 at 5:30 am
When i use Opera browser and right click inspect element i see this javascript for the file download
<span onmouseover="style.cursor='hand'" onmouseout="style.cursor='default'" style="text-align: left; cursor:
default" valign="bottom" title="7020905001.DWI7-02.zip"
onclick="download('|Provincial|09|05|7020905001|2011|May|DWI7|7020905001.DWI7-02.zip','getfile.aspx');">
is there no way i can use this somehow?
October 19, 2011 at 5:32 am
You then need to find the javascript code called download and reverse engineer what it does.
From that you have a shot @ getting the correct & final url.
October 19, 2011 at 5:38 am
You then need to find the javascript code called download and reverse engineer what it does.
From that you have a shot @ getting the correct & final url.
Does he suppose to do that? (Assuming he / she is Database Developer / DBA)
October 19, 2011 at 5:40 am
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You then need to find the javascript code called download and reverse engineer what it does.
From that you have a shot @ getting the correct & final url.
Does he suppose to do that? (Assuming he / she is Database Developer / DBA)
View source.
Plan b would be to save the page and all embeded files and upload here so I can investigate.
October 19, 2011 at 5:51 am
just saved the web page now but when i try to upload it here it says im not allowed to because of the file type mht
October 19, 2011 at 5:55 am
Save as native html + all the files separately.
Then try mailing it to use if the upload to the message boards doesn't work.
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