There are a variety of options, but they do generally require that you
understand how that particular web form interacts with your browser because
there are multiple ways to design them. Firefox has some powerful plugins such
as FireBug for studying how web pages work that can inform how you set up your
scrape. Google for "web scraping R" to get started, and look at the Web
Technologies task view at CRAN.
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On May 13, 2014 3:42:55 PM PDT, Vincenzo Landi <landivince...@yahoo.it> wrote:
>Hello,
>please there is some script that can interrogating a web database (like
>
>this
>http://pra-incecca.tragsatec.es/pra-incecca/caballos/fichaProducto.xhtml)
>following
>a list of items and download the response into my local pc?
>Thank you in advance for any help
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