Loop dropdown selections on web page

if I'm not mistaken, as you have already noticed, the select element in HTML is the dropdown feature. and the option attribute inside of that is what sets the values inside the dropdown. however, you should be aware that anti-hacking and anit-ANYTHING tactics are constantly being developed, strictly for the purpose of allowing corporate websites to remain as private as possible and keeping the money flowing into *them* only, so other people don't steal anything and try to compete with them. and it's been that way for at least 10 years now.

you also need to know, if you don't, as I have said in another thread already, that there *are* actual policies against scraping sites that are indicated by companies. so doing it on some sites is actually illegal. however, if you don't care as most don't, you would probably never get caught because they are too busy making money to care, even if they do see your activity in the transaction logs.

in the source of the webpage you have shown, click the down arrow next to the select tag and see if the word option appears in there multiple times.

didn't I already give you that? what do you mean the code syntax?

Originally Posted by sintek

Adam..Gonna leave this thread unsolved so as to get the required code to extract the emails correctly...

well I'm not expert either! I don't do much of it. but I CAN get you in touch with a seriously smart professor in South America who does this all day long, and teaches it too!

so....are you asking for the code, properly, to do this? you said you got the solution already. are you asking for a better one?

Originally Posted by sintek

Yep, I am asking for the code that loops the drop down selections and extracts the emails from each store...
By using the ElementById or ElementsByName or ElementsBytagName Features...

it doesn't look like it is traditionally written code, my friend. the email addresses are being manipulated by a javascript function. see below images. they are not technically written in the dropdown as attributes, as it seems. your way might be the only one to get what you need....

on a second go-through, it seems that the function is being called when a selection is made. do you want me to run that experiment and see what happens? I didn't do that. did you?

Originally Posted by sintek

There must be a general code scenario for websites...Any body have any ideas or links where one could learn...

what are you looking for, sintek? what do you mean by a general scenario? are you talking about programming standards for building websites?

if you're talking about not needing to go through 55 of these:

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I don't think there's a way to shorten the process, because the query giving the results can't be seen by a browser. furthermore, it looks like pagination code is being either echoed out after the search of is static code on the page anyway. if you wanted to get really crazy, maybe you could try injecting an extra query string argument into the URL and see what it gets you.

and there's always sql injection too, as a way to dump all the DB's information, but I'm sure you're not a criminal, so best to refrain from that! =)

Originally Posted by sintek

Greek to me Adam...I skipped the basics lol...

hmmmm.....well sorry to make you feel bad. so then....have you got this solved or are you waiting on a response from the VBA expert you mentioned a while back?

Originally Posted by sintek

Greek to me Adam...I skipped the basics lol...

I know this is solved, but if I were you I would learn Russian instead of greek. That way, you would understand their level of technical competence. LOL.