Grabbing Table Columns from Other Web Pages

[Star_wars]

hello all,

i have seen one good script on net to grab the data from other webpage and i wanted to test for myself but i dont get the data instead of that, i get one empty page can anyone look at the code(i am so new to this remote scripting world)????

<%
Function GetCell(cellnumber, extracturl)
'Variables: Cellnumber: Number of the cell to get data from
'ExtractURL: complete url that contains the cells and data
'Returns a string of the cells data (including html)

'Use the SOFTWING.AspTear component to get the HTML (but any
'will do... just rewrite this part) connection is including in
'Function for purpose of being self-contained
Const Request_POST = 1
Const Request_GET = 2

Set xObj = Server.CreateObject("SOFTWING.AspTear")
strRetVal = xObj.Retrieve(extracturl,Request_GET,"","","")
set xobj = nothing

i = 1 ' HTML Text Location Start
q = 1 ' Cell Number Start

' Loop until we have processed the cell we're looking for
Do until q > cellnumber
' Look for <TD the start of a cell
i = InStr(i, UCase(strRetVal), "<TD")

' Find the location of the end of the <TD tag
r = InStr(i, strRetVal, ">")

' Let the next loop start looking after this <TD tag we found
i = r + 1

' increase the count of which cell we're at
q = q + 1
Loop

' The start of our cell text is right after the last found tag
StartCellText = i

' Now... to find the end of this cell's text, we look for either <TABLE
' or <TD - whichever comes first (but we have to check if they exist or not)
' We don't include nested tables in the cell data because those tables have
' cells of their own.
If (InStr(r, UCase(strRetVal), "<TABLE") > 0) AND _
(InStr(r, UCase(strRetVal), "<TABLE") < _
InStr(r, UCase(strRetVal), "</TD>")) then
ThisCellText = mid(strRetVal, StartCellText, _
InStr(r, UCase(strRetVal),"<TABLE")- StartCellText )
Else
ThisCellText = mid(strRetVal, StartCellText, _
InStr(r, UCase(strRetVal), "</TD>")- StartCellText )
End If

GetCell = ThisCellText
End Function



Function NumberCells(extracturl)
'Variables: ExtractUrl: The URL (eg http://www.cnn.com) to number
'returns a string of the entire HTML document with numbers at the beginning
'of each cell

'Use the SOFTWING.AspTear component to get the HTML (but any will do...
'just rewrite this part)
'connection is including in Function for purpose of being self-contained
Const Request_POST = 1
Const Request_GET = 2

Set xObj = Server.CreateObject("SOFTWING.AspTear")
strRetVal = xObj.Retrieve(extracturl,Request_GET,"","","")
set xobj = nothing

i = 1 ' HTML Text Location Start
q = 1 ' Cell Number Start

' So long as <TD cells exist- number them
Do while InStr(i, UCase(strRetVal), "<TD") > 0
' find next <TD
i = InStr(i, UCase(strRetVal), "<TD")

' fomd the end of the <TD
r = InStr(i, strRetVal, ">")
strRetVal = left(strRetVal, r) & q & _
right(strRetVal, len(strRetVal) - r)

'Number the cells: the string equals all the html we've check,
'our cell number, and then the html we've yet to check
' Let the next loop start looking after this <TD tag we found
i = r + 1

' increase the count of which cell we're at
q = q + 1
Loop

NumberCells = strRetVal
End Function
%>


if i look at the code, i cant see where they extract the url that is just a variable and i tried to put my url but i get empty page

regardszzz

[bslintx]

if using ie you can export the table data into word or better yet excel..then you could have a database to edit it

[Bullschmidt]

Some related links:

How do I read the contents of a remote web page?
http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2173

Using Microsoft's XMLHTTP Object to Get Data From Other Web Pages by Richard Lowe - 11/1/2000
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/110100-1.shtml

"Retrieve data from other web sites."
How do I read the contents of a remote web page? - 5/2/2001
http://www.aspfaq.com/faq/faqShow.asp?fid=119