You could give our second Firefox extension (called Solvent) a try:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/dfhuynh/research/downloads/
It needs the latest PB xpi found in the same place.
Not all of Solvent is working yet. But your XPath there seems to have
grabbed the address just fine.
David
Alf Eaton wrote:
> On 01 Oct 2005, at 10:55, David Huynh wrote:
>
>> Alf Eaton wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Just wondering, because I really have a need for it at the moment,
>>> are there any scrapers for importing data directly into Piggy Bank
>>> from Google Maps pages?
>>>
>>> alf.
>>>
>>
>> Not that I'm aware of. Are you looking at such a page as this?
>>
>> http://maps.google.com/maps?
>> q=pizza&sll=37.062500,-95.677068&spn=1.034791,1.896927&sspn=37.888181,
>> 64.775391&num=10&start=0&hl=en
>>
>> David
>>
>
> More like this, actually:
> http://maps.google.com/maps?q=75+bellevue+avenue,
> +toronto&spn=0.031208,0.062622&hl=en
>
> so it has the coordinates in the URL and the details in
> /HTML[1]/BODY[1]/DIV[2]/DIV[3]/DIV[3]/TABLE[1]/TBODY[1]/TR[1]/TD[2]
> or thereabouts (though that bit is in the external iframe, I think).
>
> alf.
Received on Sat Oct 01 2005 - 15:44:53 EDT