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• Comment 1 written by John Bliss on 13 March 2009, at 8:40 AM

  

  Why not use BlackWidow...?
  
  http://softbytelabs.com/us/bw/

• Comment 2 written by James Buckingham on 13 March 2009, at 8:41 AM

  

  It probably defeats the purpose of the challenge I know but why not just use some freeware software to do it? (no names mentioned)
  
  I did just that when a competitor of ours "stole" content off our site.

• Comment 3 written by Steve Ross on 13 March 2009, at 8:50 AM

  

  does it have to be in CF?

• Comment 4 written by John Lyons on 13 March 2009, at 8:57 AM

  

  Use the windows port of wget and down the whole thing.
  
  http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/

• Comment 5 written by Raymond Camden on 13 March 2009, at 9:10 AM

  

  I look at this in 2 views. The practical need is for the MG team. If you use black magic voodoo to get the content, I'm happy and they are happy (by they I mean me too, I'm on the team :)
  
  The other view is - I'd like to a CF solution too, just for fun. :)

• Comment 6 written by Rand Thacker on 13 March 2009, at 10:22 AM

  

  I just tried the wget thing (no need to grab the windows version, the linux did just fine).
  
  I never knew about the recursive option. Amazing.
  
  I learned something new today: Thanks John Lyons (and Ray for issuing the challenge to begin with).

• Comment 7 written by Steve Ross on 14 March 2009, at 9:27 AM

  

  wget is nice but, what if you actually want to do something with the data, or only grab parts of the page (probably a more likely scenario).
  
  Check out http://scrubyt.org lets you grab parts of pages (even interact with them)
  
  for example:
  
  ebay_data = Scrubyt::Extractor.define do
  
  fetch 'http://www.ebay.com/'
  fill_textfield 'satitle', 'ipod'
  submit
  click_link 'Apple iPod'
  
  record do
  item_name 'APPLE NEW IPOD MINI 6GB MP3 PLAYER SILVER'
  price '$71.99'
  end
  next_page 'Next >', :limit => 5
  
  end

• Comment 8 written by Rick Stone - RoboHelp ACE on 14 March 2009, at 1:07 PM

  

  The question in my mind here is to ask if RoboHelp will be used in the future for the docs.
  
  If so, I have a page up at the link below that will assist in reverse engineering things.
  http://tinyurl.com/2g8kd6
  
  If anyone creates a utility to grab this content and convert it to basic HTML pages, I'd love to know about it so I may steer folks to obtain it if needed. It would be a nice one to see.
  
  Cheers all... Rick :)

• Comment 9 written by Ed Bartram on 24 March 2009, at 4:01 PM

  

  My solution is posted at http://edbartram.com/blog/2009/03/converting-model... with a zip file containing the Model-Glue docs in HTML format.
  
  I kept the code simple using CFHTTP calls and looping through the pages using FindNoCase() to strip out the desired content.
  
  Is this what you were looking for?

• Comment 10 written by Raymond Camden on 25 March 2009, at 12:31 PM

  

  @Ed (and all), Dan Wilson is monitoring this post as he is the one trying to get the docs.

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