Copy message text and user name only from Message Board with 100s of pages of 10 messages each?
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I was thinking of doing the page source on each and every messageboard page and cntrl+a then cntrl+c and then pasting it into text files and just going back and deleting everything except usernames and actual messages, but is there a freeware or trialware program that can do this, basically ONLY copy the actual messages (including html links) and the username the message belongs to, ignoring all the user profile info, signatures, times/dates, etc.
Any and all help would be appreciated, I would think this wouldn't be too complicated to just write a program for, ignoring some text and just accumulating certain other text. I am very rusty on programming is there a website that I could just ad-hoc a solution for this and built a rudimentary program to scan thousands or millions of pages of 10 messages each? Thank you!
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I was thinking of doing the page source on each and every messageboard page and cntrl+a then cntrl+c and then pasting it into text files and just going back and deleting everything except usernames and actual messages, but is there a freeware or trialware program that can do this, basically ONLY copy the actual messages (including html links) and the username the message belongs to, ignoring all the user profile info, signatures, times/dates, etc.
Any and all help would be appreciated, I would think this wouldn't be too complicated to just write a program for, ignoring some text and just accumulating certain other text. I am very rusty on programming is there a website that I could just ad-hoc a solution for this and built a rudimentary program to scan thousands or millions of pages of 10 messages each? Thank you!