spider a website

[shank]

How can I go about sending a spider to a website and retrieving data? I want
to sell product for a company that claims the cannot query their database.
Ridiculous! Anyway, is there a way that I can automate someway of collecting
data from their site? I would need UPC codes, descriptions etc.

thanks

 

[Atrax]

I wouldn't even consider ASP for a 'spider' - unless you mean just
hitting ONE page and getting back the data from it. A spider generally
runs for a long long time, something which ASP is NOT good at.

hitting a page once is easy, though - there's an article in the ASP
section of my site on it using either XMLHTTP or ASPHTTP





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