I was asked if i could help with a script. As i was asked and don't need help myself, i put this in the general nonsense section.
I gave up pretty fast, then thought that it is a good or interesting subject.
In Germany we got "gelbe Seiten". There you can look up people who do certain works (dentist, garderner, well: anything).
They got a web-site:
http://www.gelbeseiten.de/From there the search results are needed, and what needs to be extracted from search results is:
name, address, phone, mail and www
I first thought this might be easy. But for me it isn't.
The 2 search boxes ask for:
< search term > (say gardener)
< city > (say Berlin)
The first problem i got is that i would not know how to tell wget (or whatever one uses) to "enter" the search term.
As i couldn't figure out, i just picked a search term ("Tischler", which is a carpenter) and a city (Arnsdorf), took the url:
http://www.gelbeseiten.de/tischler/arnsdorfand simply wget it.
Then i was lost again, when trying to find a pattern for name, address, phone, etc, and gave up.
Any ideas or experiences or ever-run-into-something-which-sounded-like-that?