hi all,
At work at the moment we're doing a lot of competitor analysis which means we're paying 9 members of staff per 24 hours to sit there pulling figures from a website. It's costing around £4-5k for the week, and it all seems a little silly.
Problem is the website itself is based in flash and I was wondering if there was anyway to pull data directly from the web pages?
Flash isn't something I know a lot about so I have no idea if this is possible or not so any advise gratefully received
The other option was an automatic screenshot taker set at 3 minute intervals and saving as time stamped jpegs. Got 1/2 way there using autohotkey but the flash pages close themselves after 20 mins which is a royal pita!
At work at the moment we're doing a lot of competitor analysis which means we're paying 9 members of staff per 24 hours to sit there pulling figures from a website. It's costing around £4-5k for the week, and it all seems a little silly.
Problem is the website itself is based in flash and I was wondering if there was anyway to pull data directly from the web pages?
Flash isn't something I know a lot about so I have no idea if this is possible or not so any advise gratefully received
The other option was an automatic screenshot taker set at 3 minute intervals and saving as time stamped jpegs. Got 1/2 way there using autohotkey but the flash pages close themselves after 20 mins which is a royal pita!
