Downloading a list from a website

[Rakotomandimby Mihamina]

08/19/2009 08:34 AM, Haseeb ul Hasan::
> https://www.acca-business.org/pls/ecommerce/epfpl001.p_search?p_client_type=GRAD
> It has got the passed chartered accountants in the current exam attempt.
> But, its across letters from a-z and across multiple pages. I am using
> Intrepid. How can i download the full list (in an excel file or a csv or
> any other sort, i need searching the database) instead of copy pasting
> the whole hundred pages or may be more one by one?
>

With Python
http://www.google.com/search?q=python+urllib to fetch the urls
http://www.google.com/search?q=python+htmlparser to parse HTML

But Perl and Ruby have also good modules for that.

Choose one langage then ask on its mailing list.
http://www.google.com/search?q=python+mailing+list
http://www.google.com/search?q=ruby+mailing+list
http://www.google.com/search?q=perl+mailing+list

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