Possible? If so. How?

Dear All,

I currently am buying and selling items from china, and basically I was wondering if it is possible to grap the tracking information from the delivery companies website, without the customer seeing their site. Although on their site, I cannot seem to find an API to do this, so was wondering.

The site is:

http://www.ems.com.cn/english-main.jsp

Thanks

 

looks like you will first have to get past and validate their Captcha device... doesn't look like a hard one so an OCR app could probably decifer it on the fly for you. Then you would need to scrape the results

 

Ok, thanks for that ccoonen, although please explain further

 

The OCR (optical character recognition) application will read the validation code and enter it into the box.

The screen scraper will capture the response and allow you to extract the element which you require to allow you to seamlessly include it in your page.

Saying that, a decent supplier will have a web service to avoid you needing to use these techniques

 

Ok, thanks, could I use a php plugin to find the simularity's in the code then extract the table?

Thanks

 

you did NOT just say the 4 letter word "wont" - now I gotta spend all weekend and proove it wrong, lol