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Asked: 2026-06-09T15:58:11+00:00

For a data collection/analysis project, I am trying to download entries in a aspx

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For a data collection/analysis project, I am trying to download entries in a aspx web form at http://www.lasuperiorcourt.org/civilcasesummarynet/ui/?CT=AP&casetype=appellate, but I’m having little success so far.

The idea is to download the relevant information from the web page through wget and output the results to a single html file. From the resulting output I would then compile stats on the extracted data on relevant cases (e.g. from case nos BV024000 to BV028933).

However, I’m having trouble getting wget to retrieve data from the form. I’ve been using:

wget --post-data "frmsearch=BV024000" http://www.lasuperiorcourt.org/civilcasesummarynet/ui/?CT=AP^&casetype=appellate -O output.html

But I just get the original page back, not the form output. What am I doing wrong?

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  1. Editorial Team

    There two problems

    1. You have typos in your command – you should wrap the http address between quotes and it’s ui/index.aspx?CT=AP. without the ^
    2. When you post the form you have to post all the input fields of the form otherwise your post request is not validated.

    Here I did the request as follow

        wget --post-data "__VIEWSTATE=%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%3D%3D&CaseNumber=BV024000&submit1=Search&casetype=appellate" "http://www.lasuperiorcourt.org/civilcasesummarynet/ui/index.aspx?CT=AP&casetype=appellate" -O output.html
--2012-08-12 19:25:32--  http://www.lasuperiorcourt.org/civilcasesummarynet/ui/index.aspx?CT=AP&casetype=appellate
Resolving www.lasuperiorcourt.org... 153.43.255.56
Connecting to www.lasuperiorcourt.org|153.43.255.56|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: /civilcasesummarynet/ui/casesummary.aspx?CT=AP&casetype=appellate [following]
--2012-08-12 19:25:33--  http://www.lasuperiorcourt.org/civilcasesummarynet/ui/casesummary.aspx?CT=AP&casetype=appellate

    and it worked see the picture http://i47.tinypic.com/35db8k3.png

    Probably you will need to set up a new value of __VIEWSTATE for every request.

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