I need a programmer for a small project...
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At a certain subscription-paid legal research web site, the case law is
presented in a frame with the following information in the title tag
The page is generated on the fly, and when one clicks in the case frame
and goes to save it, one gets "docview.htp.html" as the default
filename. That means that one must either hand name the files saved or
copy-and-paste the case name and citation from the top of case frame to
use as a filename.
If one opens the case frame in a new window, the title tag of that page
contains the case name in the folowing general form:
NAME v. NAME, Official citation string such as 555 Or. App. 555 (1999)
That same information is displayed in the original case frame
presentation surrounded by odd tags in source:
<CENTER>NAME v. NAME, <CITE>555 Or. App. 555</CITE> (1999)</CENTER>
That is always the first appearance of the <CITE> tags, and the desired
cite is always between the center tags
I have been copy-pasting the case cite from the top of the page into the
filename dialogues, then modifying it as follows to be accessible on a
Unix box.
NAME_v_NAME_555_Or_App_555_(1999).html
That is, periods and commas disappear, and spaces are replaced with
underscores.
After I have downloaded a bunch of cases, I open each as a PDF with
Acrobat 5.0 [Yes, I know there's an upgrade...]. To save each I have to
go through that same file-namimg BS because the HTML filename doesn't
come along and automatically have a "pdf" suffix attached to the end in
place of "html."
I need a script, plug-in, helper application, special build,
whatchamallit that turns that whole thing into a two-click operation
[Save Case, Confirm Save Path] and, presto, I have properly-named
downloaded files in both HTML and PDF.
It must remember where the last files were saved and default to there
until changed.
I've written some scripts in Javascript and Perl, but this is way beyond
my skills. I'm much better at legal research. I'd rather do that to earn
the money to pay somebody else who's qualified for such a task.
Any takers? If so, please provide your bona fides and bid any
reasonmable amount.
I'm currently using Mozilla 1.7a {Build ID: 2004021913} [Yes, I know
1.7b is out...] under Windows 98 [Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it sucks, but
I don't want to upgrade til I buy a new box.].