I need an application for windows xp coded. Any language is fine as long as it is a stand alone application that can do the following: 1) User makes selections for variables, inputs their search phrase and hits search. 2) Program goes to a website online, and performs a search for the what the user wants, and digs down to a certain depth (1 level deep, 2 levels deep) for the info. 3) Program will return results matching their search and the criteria they set. The criteria they set are just options/variables on the website which the program searches. This applicaiton is just automating something which now is a manual task. All the options that I want the program/user to be able to set are available on the website. So the application just takes what the user wants to search for, goes to the website and manually performs the task, speeding up the process and displays the results in a window in the application. I know this is vague but if you can code stand along programs that perform a kind of web scraping/searching please let me know.
Well I said I can make a web application for you and it will run on your pc only ,doing same purpose, is it fine ?
This can be done in .net (standalone app using winforms)... but some clarification is needed: When you say the user selects some variables, inputs a search string, and clicks search... are we talking about a couple variables, a bunch, a ton of variables? That is very vague and does impact a quote For the returned data, are you looking for just screen output that can be copy/pasted, exported to another file, etc? Again, this greatly impacts any quote.
esoom yes I know it is vague this was done deliberately. 4 main options and then how "deep" or just how many pages down to follow links. This is for screen output only. Thanks.