Data Entry Work - Or Automated Script Needed

Cancelled Posted May 11, 2005 Paid on delivery
Cancelled Paid on delivery

Hello,

we need someone that can either develop a automated script or manually extract data from a large ranges of URL's that we give.

Basically we need the source to every music video listed on Yahoo [login to view URL] to be taken and imputed into a simple text file following a certain format that we specify

There are 10620 videos that we need to have the URL, Artist Name, And Song title to, which is why we think a script would be much much much faster!

Here is the format for which the data should be aranged into.

Artist Name|Song Title|Url To Video

Artist Name|Song Title|Url To Video

Artist Name|Song Title|Url To Video

Artist Name|Song Title|Url To Video

Artist Name|Song Title|Url To Video

## Deliverables

Below are [b]VERY[/b] detailed instructions on how to complete this project. It is alot easier than you think if you can develop a script to do the work.

1.) You need to located every music video located at [login to view URL] starting with "0" and ending with "Z" Notice that on each letter of the alphabet there is between 1 and 30 subpages for that letter. For example here are the first few pages

Starting With "0"

[login to view URL]

[login to view URL]

[login to view URL]

[login to view URL]

[login to view URL]

[login to view URL]

[login to view URL]

[login to view URL]

Starting With "A"

[login to view URL]

all the way to...

[login to view URL]

2.) Next you need to "right click" on each of the song titles and click "view properties" you will then need to copy down the string of characters shown. For example when you right click on one song title and view the properties you will see "javascript:playVideos(2156660)" you will only need to copy down the cahracters inbetween the paranthesis.

3.) Next you need to imput that string of characters into this website [login to view URL]*******

**** = The string of charcters that you pulled from the song title.

For example if the page showed "javascript:playVideos(2156660)" you would enter it in like this... [login to view URL]

5.) Finally you will need to take the output displayed in the "300K Stream" section and input it into the format along with the Artist Name and Song Title which are also displayed on that resulting page. For example let's say you ran the query, [login to view URL]

Then your outputting data would look exactly like this...

System Of A Down|Boom|mms://re2wmod008.bcst.re--trunkated--05OWN

The finished product will be a text file that has about 10620 lines of information arranged into the proper format, "Artist Name|Song Title|Url To Video"

::::ADDITIONAL INFORMATION::::

1.) Obviousely this script would take a VERY long time if done by hand which is why we think a script that can take the string of charcters from the yahoo pages, run them through the script loacted at [login to view URL] and taking the resulting information and place it into a text file in our specific format that we require.

2.) Please be as specific as possible about how you plan to make the script work. How long it will take to get the source to over 10,600 videos, run them through the script, and then organize them into a specific format in a text file.

## Platform

VB, .NET, Php, Windows, JavaScript

.NET C Programming Engineering JavaScript MySQL PHP Software Architecture Software Testing User Interface / IA Visual Basic

Project ID: #3712449

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