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This is only an example of using P.S.E. You can create
your own profiles to perform more difficult searches. You can search
mail addresses, telephone numbers or street addresses. Modify this example
to get most usable result. The future version of P.S.E will be
able to automatically perform actions like to send mail by all
found addresses or to download all found pages.
The first step is to define resource that contains a list of companies.
For example: http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Companies/Electronic_Commerce.
Let us create a search profile that will read this document and make a
database.
Follow next steps:
Press "New" button.
Remove all existing property templates.
Company information string includes company name, homepage address and
brief comment. Let us create a 3 property templates that make program
to read company data:
- Mask "Company address".
Value: \w-<li><a href="\w+\*\w-">
Parent property: None
Type: "Address"
Translate format: FALSE
Maximum found: Not test
- Mask "Company Name".
Value: \*\w-</a>
Parent property: "Company address".
Depend type: "Search after"
Type: "Text"
Translate format: TRUE
Maximum found: 1
- Mask "Comments".
Value: \*\w-<li>
Parent property: "Company Name".
Depend type: "Search after"
Type: "Text"
Translate format: TRUE
Maximum found: 1
Set up start address http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Companies/Electronic_Commerce
Press "Start" button.
Open panel "Results" and press button "Report
values". List of companies will appear. You can save it to disk
and use by any way, for instance, to download all the pages automatically.
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