1. Scope-go to a website and pluck any piece of information from that website based on 1 piece of data from an excel spreadsheet:
I want a simple interface for the program where there is one field titled "Website" where I can type a website that I want to collect data from, for our example, lets use zipskinny/com. Zipskinny allows you to query a zipcode and brings up all kinds of stuff on that zipcode such as crime, median income, how many people live there, etc.
I would like another field titled "Data" where I can insert a 1 column/multiple row Excel table to draw data from. In our example, the spreadsheet would have a column titled zipcodes. It would be really nice to be able to browse a spreadsheet and highlight a column in an existing Excel database instead of copying and pasting the data into the program if it wasn't too complicated.
I would then like to have another field titled "Find What?" where you could define what you wanted on the website. I don't know how this part would work but for our example, I want to find Median Income. Would be nice to be allow you to record a macro of you selecting what piece of info you want within the webpage and then running that macro for every zipcode.
I would then like to run the program and have it pull the zipcodes from the Excel spreadsheet, drop them one by one into the Data field and then put them back into the spreadsheet into a separate column called Median Income. If the program just popped out the data onto a screen or into another field, that's ok as long as I could copy and paste it back into the spreadsheet.
I want a simple interface for the program where there is one field titled "Website" where I can type a website that I want to collect data from, for our example, lets use zipskinny/com. Zipskinny allows you to query a zipcode and brings up all kinds of stuff on that zipcode such as crime, median income, how many people live there, etc.
I would like another field titled "Data" where I can insert a 1 column/multiple row Excel table to draw data from. In our example, the spreadsheet would have a column titled zipcodes. It would be really nice to be able to browse a spreadsheet and highlight a column in an existing Excel database instead of copying and pasting the data into the program if it wasn't too complicated.
I would then like to have another field titled "Find What?" where you could define what you wanted on the website. I don't know how this part would work but for our example, I want to find Median Income. Would be nice to be allow you to record a macro of you selecting what piece of info you want within the webpage and then running that macro for every zipcode.
I would then like to run the program and have it pull the zipcodes from the Excel spreadsheet, drop them one by one into the Data field and then put them back into the spreadsheet into a separate column called Median Income. If the program just popped out the data onto a screen or into another field, that's ok as long as I could copy and paste it back into the spreadsheet.