A script to browse search results in a defined manner and store email adresses

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fire_and_ice
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A script to browse search results in a defined manner and store email adresses

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Hello there,

I'm totally new to brownrecluse, and I have spent some time to read the manual. It seems that brownrecluse is able to peform an interesting task to me.
In this topic, I would like to describe the task that I want to perform, being as precise as possible, and obtain a script that I can run on my computer.

Create a text file. This file is completed as the robot crawls.
A new line is added to the file when the robot finds one email address in a page during the exploration.
This line list the URL where the email address was found, the email itself, and any other email addresses also present on the page.
File organization
1st column = URL
2nd column = email 1
Xth column = email x
The columns are separated with tab.


Robot

The Robot start with this page:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?ter ... ll+size%22

1) First, I would like to explore (more details below step 2) the search pages. Here there is ~22143 results spread on 1108 pages. I would like to open each page of the search to perform some operations. If there is no more pages, I want the script to end.

2) On each result page: I want to explore (more details below step 3) only the links of the search page. Once the requested exploration and tasks are performed for a link, I want to return to that result page to explore the remaining results the same way until there is not any unexplored links left. If there is not any unexplored link, I want to go to the next page.

3) open each result URL
First, I want to check if there is an email address in a particular field of the webpage. It is in a dropdown menu, a “toggle”. When this menu is closed (by default) the code looks like:

<a title="Open/close author information list" class="jig-ncbitoggler ui-widget ui-ncbitoggler" href="#" aria-disabled="false" role="button" aria-expanded="false"><span class="ui-ncbitoggler-master-text">Author information </span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-triangle-1-e"></span></a>

When it is open, the source code looks like this:

<a title="Open/close author information list" class="jig-ncbitoggler ui-widget ui-ncbitoggler-open" href="#" aria-disabled="false" role="button" aria-expanded="true"><span class="ui-ncbitoggler-master-text">Author information </span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-triangle-1-s"></span></a>

If there is an email address in this dropdown content, I want the email to be stored, as well as the absolute link leading to this URL and as well as any other email address in the TXT. Then, I want to go back to the results page.

If there is no email adresses in this dropdown content, I want to explore a link always at the same place on the results pages. Most of the time is it a clickable logo. Sometimes it’s just a text line. The html code look like this. The target URL is underlined.

<div class="supplemental col three_col last">
<h2 class="offscreen_noflow">Supplemental Content</h2>
<div>
<div class="icons"><a href="http://www.karger.com?DOI=000356405&typ=pdf" ref="PrId=3030&itool=Abstract-def&uid=24334922&nlmid=0370307&db=pubmed&log$=linkouticon" journal="Acta Cytol" target="_blank"><img alt="Icon for S. Karger AG, Basel, Switzerland" title="Read full text in S. Karger AG, Basel, Switzerland" src="//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/corehtml/query/egi ... nlm_ft.gif" border="0"></a> </div>


If there is no more URL to explore at this place, return to the search results

4) In this new link, I would like to search for emails in the entire page. Be the email addresses found or not, when the search if over the robot returns to the current page in the search results.

Can you please help me with a script to perform this task? If there is something unclear, I'll answer.
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Re: A script to browse search results in a defined manner and store email adresses

Post by Support »

Hello,

I've looked at the site and we can write this script, but we can only do so for customers of BrownRecluse, and there is a few of $35 to write the script.
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Re: A script to browse search results in a defined manner and store email adresses

Post by fire_and_ice »

Hello, and happy new year !

Thank you for your reply. My purpose is to buy brownrecluse of course, as long as it is capable of doing what I want. So if you tell me that you can write the script and that it is possible, I will buy and pay the extra for you to develop the script.

However, since I understand there is an extra for the script development, I took time to have a deep reflexion on the script. I thus added some functionnalities, and modified some others. I would like to send the complete script storyboard to a developer to have confirmation that it possible.

Whom can I send the script storyboard to?

Thank you in advance.
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Re: A script to browse search results in a defined manner and store email adresses

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You can send it to me via a PM (private message).

Have a Happy and Healthy New Year...
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