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handling html form from client

 [1/3] from: john_kenyon:mlc:au at: 10-Apr-2002 12:44


Michael, Maybe try using Amazon, data: read http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1565921674 then parsing through the result to find the title and authors. Cheers, John

 [2/3] from: mla::itinko::com at: 9-Apr-2002 22:23


I'm new to Rebol and thought I would try and impress my little brother with a new project. He is scanning the ISBN number of every book in my parents huge collection into a database. I was hoping to write a script to look up the books details (title, author etc) from bookfinder.com. Can anyone direct me to an example of filling in a form, sending it to the host and processing the resulting html. I'm not totally braindead so partial examples will suffice. Thanks in advance. Michael Appelmans [mla--itinko--com]

 [3/3] from: gscottjones:mchsi at: 10-Apr-2002 8:03


Hi, Michael, From: "Michael Appelmans"
> I'm new to Rebol and thought I would try and impress my little brother > with a new project. He is scanning the ISBN number of every book in my
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> Thanks in advance. <snip>
I was unsure which form page you might have been looking for. The general approach I use is to first look to see if the site uses a GET or a POST. If it is a GET (which it appears to be), then I simply fill in a sample search, grab the resulting URL and fit it into a template of the following form: ************** REBOL [] site: http://www.bookfinder.com/search/ author: "" title: "" submit: "Begin+Search" new_used: "*" binding: "*" isbn: "0-393-96945-2" keywords: "" min_price: "" max_price: "" currency: "USD" mode: "advanced" st: "sr" ac: "qr" either error? try [ page-return: read rejoin [ site {?author=} author {&title=} title {&submit=} submit {&new_used=} new_used {&binding=} binding {&isbn=} isbn {&keywords=} keywords {&min_price=} min_price {&max_price=} max_price {&currency=} currency {&mode=} mode {&st=} st {&ac=} ac ] ][ page-return: "error" ][ print page-return ] ******************* I usually embed this functionality into a function and pass in only the field that will be queried. Then where I have "print page-return", I usually put my parse functionality and return either the parsed info or an appropriate error message. Hopefully this will get you started. POST is a little different. I've done a few of those and can probably find an example if needed. Good luck. --Scott Jones

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