[PLUG] Re: Looking for a perl programmer

[Shantanoo Mahajan]

+++ Andreas Pigni [PLUG] [10-11-06 23:42 +0100]:
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| Dear All,
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| I wondered if you could help me for the following task. First, I just
| mention that I am a student here in Law in Switzerland.
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| I would like to have in a single document (preferably excel) a list of
| all the European patent attorneys with contact details. This information
| is available from the internet. All these attorneys can be found at the
| following link: http://www.european-patent-office.org/reps/search.html
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| It seems that there are 8353 members. 
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| Thus, it seems that perl could be useful to fetch all the entries from
| 0001 to 8353:
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| http://www.european-patent-office.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/vi00n006/reps/deta
| il.pl.cgi?id=001 to
| http://www.european-patent-office.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/vi00n006/reps/deta
| il.pl.cgi?id=8353
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| I wondered if someone could write the script for me, provide it to me
| and also provide an excel table with all the entries with all the
| contact details in there for each attorney (half a day of work?). Of
| course, I would pay the programmer for that. Please let me know how much
| that would cost me (student price if possible?). 
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| Please let me know as soon as possible if someone (you, a friend?) could
| do this task for me.
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| Thanks a lot for your help.
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| Kind regards,
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| Andreas
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| ?

Any takers?
Hint:

- get all the files e.g.
  perl -e 'for($i=1;$i<=...;$i++) { $str="wget http://www.european-patent-office.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/vi00n006/reps/detail.pl.cgi?id=$i"; `$str`;}'
- extract the data
  cat <file> | perl -e 'for(<>) { if(/<BLOCKQUOTE>/.../<\/BLOCKQUOTE>/) { print }}'
  Do some more parsing and store in .csv format which can be read in
  excel.

Shantanoo

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