How can I take text from a webpage that is in multiple rows and move it into a single row in Excel?
I need help figuring out how to take data from internet pages and enter it into one single row in an excel, or numbers if that is the easier way to go. I was also told access might be good to use. Basically I am going to chamber of commerce page and wanting to extract the member listing and enter in a database in a single line. The data is in different numbers of lines as you will see below (info edited to take out personal info). So I want to take the name of business, business owner, address, city, state, zip, and phone and put it into one line on a spreadsheet. I want to do this many times over. I think there is a way to do it through apple script and automator, but I have not been successful after 2 weeks of trying and searching. I have over 800 listings and I surely don't want to go through and do them one at a time. Any suggestions?
Data from website:
Westrock Coffee
Mr.
Collins Industrial Place
North Little Rock, AR 72113
Phone:
Send Email
Member Since: 2011
Sweet Creations by DJ
Ms. J
allace Bridge Road
Perryville, AR 72126
Phone:
Fax:
Send Email
Member Since: 2013
See Also Woman Owned and/or CEO
Premium Refreshment Service
Mr. E
est Bethany Road
North , AR 72117
I want it to look like this
Company name, owner name, address, city, state, zip, phone
How can I get the extra data out of the way and remove the format so that it will go into excel? Thanks for any help you can provide. I am not to savvy with code, but I got a friend who is an IT guy that can help. Thanks again
So, basically, create 800 individual entries, each one containing everything from business name through the phone (not fax) number, add some commas and spaces to entries, and then put each entry on a separate line?
1. Go to website page such as this one-- http://www.littlerockchamber.com/CWT/External/WCPages/WCDirectory/Directory.aspx ?ACTION=newmembers --which seems formatwise very close to what you're trying to scrape.
2. Cmd-A to select all. Cmd-C to copy it to clipboard.
3. Open freeware TextWrangler. Cmd-V to paste info from clipboard into a blank TW document.
4. Remove lines from top and bottom so that only membership list remains.
5. Process lines to remove everything from "Fax" line through "See Also" line. Only business name through phone number will remain in the file.
--A. TW > Text > Process Lines containing . . .
-----(check "Delete matched lines"; uncheck all others)
-----Enter "Send Email" in the search box.
-----Click Process.
--B. Repeat 5A for other lines to be removed
------Member Since
------See Also
------Fax
6. Insert markers to separate entries:
TW: Search > Find . . .
------(check "Wrap around" and "Grep")
------in Find box: \r\r\r\r
------in replace box: \r***
------Click Replace All
7. Remove remaining blank lines:
TW: Search > Find . . .
------(check "Wrap around" and "Grep")
------in Find box: \r\r
------in replace box: \r
------Click Replace All
8. Add comma and space at end of each line:
TW: Search > Find . . .
------(check "Wrap around" and "Grep")
------in Find box: $
------in replace box: , (comma space)
------Click Replace All
9. Remove all returns:
TW: Search > Find . . .
------(check "Wrap around" and "Grep")
------in Find box: \r
------in replace box: (leave blank)
------Click Replace All
10. Insert returns in place of markers:
TW: Search > Find . . .
------(check "Wrap around" and "Grep")
------in Find box: \*\*\*, (backslash asterisk backslash asterisk backslash asterisk comma space)
------in replace box: \r
------Click Replace All
11. Remove trailing comma and blank on each line:
TW: Search > Find . . .
------(check "Wrap around" and "Grep")
------in Find box: , $ (comma space dollar sign)
------in replace box: (leave blank)
------Click Replace All
Import this text file into Excel or Numbers.
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