Sometimes it is not convenient to grab the specific element you want while you’re scraping a web page. In this tutorial I walk through how to use parentNode, previousSibling,nextSibling,firstChild and lastChild. Continue reading
Category: COM
COM (Microsoft’s Component Object Model)
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms694363(v=vs.85).aspx
Detecting Carrier Type, Company and Location from Phone Number
Detecting Carrier Type, Company and Location from Phone Number
I was talking to a company today that does “voicemail drops” (so they don’t actually call you, they just drop a message into your voicemail.
We were discussing how nice it would be if you could know who the carrier was and/or where the respondent was located.
I mentioned that I’d learned some years ago that the prefix / Exchange was tied to a given carrier and that we should be able to reverse-engineer the information pretty easily.
In this video I walk through how to automate the process and, quickly ,extract the information from the web page.
Here is the article I mentioned during the video and below is the video and script I wrote (I realized after recording the video I could have done w/o the loop. Take a look at the script below…
Video Walk Through: Detecting Carrier Type, Company and Location from Phone Number
Detecting Carrier Type, Company and Location from Phone Number
Use the following for a webpage post:
AutoHotkey v1 and v2 Excel function library
Over the years I’ve done a lot in Excel. Often I leverage my Excel function Library which is, at best, a work in progress. I commissioned Maestrith, author of AHK Studio, to review it. We worked through what did & didn’t work plus optimized a few things.
And now we just converted it all to v2! So now our download has the Excel Function library for both v1 and v2
AutoHotkey v1 and v2 Excel Function Library
