pulling data from flash pages

[AHarvey]

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!

 

[visibleman]

Personally i would run the flash site through something like Swf Decompiler and have a nose around and see if the data is being pulled in from somewhere as you might be able to grab the data straight from the source (it's unlikely but you never know).
There is also apps like Movies Extractor Scout that apparently, i've never used it, offer a simple image and text extraction for flash files.

 

[AHarvey]

thanks I am going to have a look at those and see what I can do.

I know it must pull the data in for each bingo game as it'll need to update each time so if I can intercept the data as its coming through it'll be so much easier