Link expansion tool?

 

I'm dealing with a website that lists their locations as city links; to get at the addresses I need to open each link manually, copy the contents, and navigate back to select the next city in the list - and there are a lot of them.

This would be a lot easier if I could expand the whole list of links at once, perhaps into an output file.

Has anyone used or heard of such a tool?

Cheers,

John.

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nüvi 760 (http://jdbeastlet.googlepages.com)

Link Expansion Tool

You might want to look at HTTrack Website Copier,
http://www.httrack.com It is free and lets you copy a whole web site, file by file. Be warned, though, for large Web Sites, it could run several hours and download thousands of files. And I won't even get into the ethics of it.

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Interesting tool

Thanks for the link, I am going to look into the program to see what it can do.

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Getting links

If you use
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ Firefox browser

there are extensions that do the very task you wish to accomplish.

  1. DownThemAll https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201
  2. ScrapBook https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/427

are two.

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Have you tried contacting the site to see if they will provide you with a complete list? Doesn't hurt to try.

Thanks for the tips...

Thanks for the tips, everyone. I have Firefox so I'll give that a try. And I have thought about contacting the site - just haven't done it yet. Strangely enought, they don't have email listed as a point of contact.

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Still no luck...

Tried httrack and DownloadThemAll and neither are getting the results I want. The Cities are in a drop-down list box and I guess these tools don't follow those kinds of links.

Any other suggestions?

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If you are willing to provide a link to the site we could take a look at it and maybe figure something out.

Sure thing!

It's Boston Pizza - they've got a couple hundred restaurants here in Canada. The page I'm dealing with is their restaurant locator page - there's a flash map of Canada, and a DDLB beneath it.

http://www.bostonpizza.com/?q=bostonpizza_restaurantsmenus_r...

Cheers,

John.

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There are no links

JD and Beastlet wrote:

Tried httrack and DownloadThemAll and neither are getting the results I want. The Cities are in a drop-down list box and I guess these tools don't follow those kinds of links.

Any other suggestions?

The target page URL is generated dynamically when you select a city (there are 215) from the pull-down menu.

Email me via the contact form if you need more help getting the data.

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Tried Google Earth and put

Tried Google Earth and put in Boston Pizza Canada and got lots of hits.

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