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subhailc
11-10-2004, 12:15 PM
hi - not even sure if php is an appropriate technology, but i'll ask anyways.

i post regularly on a beginner's photoshop board, and have for quite a while - post count around 1400. there's a lot of information in there that i use commonly or have forgotten in the adles of twenty-something; by now it seems that several times a day i'm doing a search on my own username and relevant keywords to find my own posts about something or the other. i'd like to have this available without going through the above, so i can sort/update/omit at my discretion - i was going to just clear cache, visit each page then pull the temp ie files and switch them to txt, but i wonder if there might be a simple php alternative, that'll grab the links generated by the search, click 'em and copy to file for me? or am i being overly optimistic? tyia.

raf
11-10-2004, 02:31 PM
You could crawl these searchresults without a problem, but a more efficient way might be to ask the forum admin if they can generate you a dataset with all your posts, so that you can load it into a db.