How to download a multi page search on yahoo?

[dontay]

Hi,
I'm not a perl programer but it looks like I might need a perl script to do what I'm trying to do.
When I run a search on Yahoo,maps,business, Health Food, it brings up multiple pages that the query finds. The manual way for me to save that information is to copy and paste it into MS Word. The problem is that it takes to much time to copy each page and paste it into Word.
My question is: What is a simple way to copy all the information from the results at one time?
Any ideas are apreciated.

Don

 

[zephan]

Hi,
* You need LWP perl module to submit queries and read the content of result.

* There's a thread in this forum on the same subject with google search. May be it can help.

for you script you have to identify the syntax of submit search url.
In your program you have to submit your query using GET method, available in LWP module.
Identify the syntax of get result page url, here is a sample for a yahoo search of "perl programmer" keywords

<a href="[URL unfurl="true"]http://rds.yahoo.com/S=2766679/K=perl+programmer/v=2/SID=e/l=WPGN/R=2/*-http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=perl+programmer&ei=UTF-8&cop=mss&fr=FP-tab-web-t&b=21"[/URL] title="Results 21 - 40">2</a>&nbsp;

Submit your query for the desired page.

* Yahoo does'nt seem to display the number of result pages. b parameter is the number of the result with wich starts the page.

If you need more details please tell.