I Want To Build A Program That Clicks On A Link On A Page, Grabs Info, Then Goes Back & Does 2nd Link?

I basically have a webpage with about 2000 links, and in each link I need to copy some information. What is the easiest way to build a program that will just click on each link and grab the information.
I am putting this info into an excel sheet, so if there is a way to do with with excel, even better.
Thansk for any help.

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2 Responses to “I Want To Build A Program That Clicks On A Link On A Page, Grabs Info, Then Goes Back & Does 2nd Link?”

  • rongee_5 says:

    You can do it using AJAX, which is basically JavaScript running asynchronously. For each link, you can have JavaScript read each url, go off to the web site and retrieve the HTML, and return the HTML back to your page, where you can parse it and save whatever information you need.
    If you know JavaScript & HTML, it should be easy for you to pick up. I made an AJAX app that goes to Google to execute a search and returns the resulting HTML from Google so I can make customized links that has the information I need.

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