Robert: Spyder doesn't currently support web sites which require a password. Rob Meredith >>> robert.fenton@xxxxxxx 08/11/05 01:19AM >>> Hi Larry et al: I have had some difficulty with bookport spider. I am attempting to access a newspapers database operated by the Canadian National Institute for the blind. When I select my newspaper and the section of the paper that I want to access, I then select all the links for the articles. Spider seems to open another copy of the web site, runs into an error stating invalid password and I then get an access denied error. How can I work around this? Thank you. ----- Original Message ----- From: "LARRY SKUTCHAN" <lskutchan@xxxxxxx> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 1:38 PM Subject: [bookport] Re: Using the Book Port Spider > How you use Spyder depends on a couple of situations. > > At the risk of offending you, I am going to include a portion of the > manual then interject some comments in your original message: > > One of the best features about Book Port is the ability to take your > reading with you wherever you go. Unfortunately, current news, > especially local news, is a problem, because it takes too much time to > individually send Web pages of your local paper or favorite magazine. > Spyder changes all that. With Spyder, you get a Web page, then tell the > program where you want to start and where you want to end, and the > program grabs each link on the page, downloads the target of that link, > puts a section marker at the beginning of each page, then sends the > whole file to your Book Port at once. Of course, if your Book Port is > not connected, the Book Port Transfer software queues up the files, so > you may instruct Windows Scheduler to run Spyder before you arise in the > morning, then connect the unit to grab the queued files before you leave > for work. > > There are several ways to start Spyder. One is to point to a Web page > with Internet Explorer then press the Applications key or right click. > When the context menu appears, select Book Port Spyder. You may also > pick Book Port Spyder from the icon in the Book Port's program group. > The final way to start the program is with one of the icons that you > create from within the program. > > The method you use to start Spyder depends on what you are doing. If > you run across a Web page for the first time or decide you want to start > getting the content of that page, you would normally open Spyder through > Internet Explorer's context menu while you are viewing that page in > Internet Explorer. You then move to the Links list for that page on > Spyder's main screen. Once in the Links list, set the Begin and End > links to reflect the content you want to send to Book Port. > > If you want to grab the contents of that Web site now, move back to the > item in the list that represents the link where you want to start, then > press the Go button. > > If the Web site is one that you want to use fairly often, use Spyder's > Create Shortcut button to create a desktop icon that opens Spyder and > grabs the links you specified. To use that new shortcut, simply point to > it on the desktop and press Enter. The shortcut will launch Spyder with > command line parameters that let it know to start grabbing the specified > range of links from that Web page. > > >>>> mmccarty@xxxxxxx Wednesday, July 13, 2005 2:58:47 PM >>> > The Spider program really is confusing to me, so I'm going to ask you > good folks how it works? > > I understand that you start with a URL, and bring up the Spider by > using the context menu. I see the links on the Spider page, and I > highlight the first link that I want to save. Once I highlight the > link, I hit ALT+B for Begin. I then go back to the list of links and > highlight the link that I want to have saved last, and hit the ALT+E > for > End. I then chose the Go button, and after a few seconds, I get some > sounds. > > LS: if you just want this page one time, you do not need to hit the > Begin button. The key here is that the Go button starts with the > highlighted link, so in this case, you want to first highlight the end > link and hit alt+e. Next move to the first link and hit alt+g to Go. > > I assume the program has done its thing, so now, what do I do? I > guess > if I choose Save, the program would try to send this information to > the > Book Port, I didn't have mine connected at the time, so the Save > button > didn't seem to work. Question, is there a way to look at the file > that > is going to be sent to the Book Port? Is one large file sent to the > BP, > or several files for each link between your start and end positions? > > LS: The Save button actually creates a desktop icon with the beginning > and end link markers. That icon is used so you don't have to mark the > start and end link everytime. > > You may look in your Pending folder to see the file. Spyder creates > one large file with section markers between the articles. > > > Michael McCarty > Fred's Head Database Coordinator > American Printing House for the Blind > Phone: 502 895-2405 > Fax: 502 899-2363 > www.aph.org > >