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Re: Problem Importing web site in Mathematica: How to by pass pages asking for login credentials
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May 11, 2012 12:16 AM
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On May 9, 5:53 pm, Mark Coleman <markspcole...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using Mathematica v8 for some text mining/classification analysis of web
> sites. As part of this I first Import[] the hyperlinks from the web
> site 's home page into a list, and then systematically traverse this
> list and Import each URL. In some cases, I hit a page or set of pages
> that requires a user to enter login credentials. At this point my code
> pops up the site's login screen and waits for manual input before
> proceeding. This obviously makes importing a large set of URLs
> infeasible.
>
> I'm wondering if it's possible to identify these pages in advance, so
> I can filter them out of my list of URLs. allowing me to automatically
> Import the remaining pages?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
I use wget in combination with Mathematica to work around logins and
cookies.
Mike
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