Webpage, InputBox, onKeyUp, AJAX

Hi!

I want to extract some information from a web site (Bloomberg). This side has a search textbox with a onKeyUp event that, as far as I can understand, uses AJAX to create a table.

Is it possible to insert some text in the textbox and then get the table created with AJAX? I know the former is possible, but the later I can't find a solution.

PS: Given the source code of the page with the tabled already AJAXed (If you understand what I want to say here), I can easly retrieve the table. I just need to get the source code with the table already on it.

Thanks a lot!

Not without jumping through a lot of hoops.
You could try this page: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/data?p...tateofidleness
which appears to produce the exact same results that would appear in the Ajaxed table. You could parse that much easier I would think, and as an added bonus, it's easy to specify the search criteria by manipulating the URL string as opposed to parsing the HTML for the input box.

Thats what I already did. But that "search" is not complete. Try to search "berk" there and in the search textbox. The results will be different: with the textbox you will have five results whereas with that search you will only have one result.

put an asterisk (*) on the end of the search term :)
That got me a lot more.

Now it gets me a lot of unwanted results.

If I cant find another solution, I'll stick with this.

Do you know the hoops I've to jump? Or some way to get me started on a workaround?

I don't remember what problem we were facing. Care to refresh?

How to retrieve a table that was created using AJAX after a onKeyUp event was triggered.