IEBot beta users manual

I. Introduction

IEBot is a set of web browser tools to help you to browse the internet efficiently and conveniently. The major functions are:

1.1 To get the tabular information from the web to your local machine. For example, you can browse to the Yahoo! yellow pages to download all the dentists' contact information into your local file automatically. These information are scattered among many pages and mixed with other information, including the advertisements.

1.2 To Know the structure of the current page. Many software programmers need to know the structure of a web page to know what to look for and what to get. The View feature of our IEBot will allow the users to view the Tables, the Forms, the Links, etc, in a structured way.

1.3 Auto Refresh capability. It is important to have some page automatically refresh periodically to know information in real-time For example, the baseball scores and the stock quote. This tool will have the capability to refresh the current page, with or without the help of the server's help. The user can turn on or Off the refresh capability at will. The user can also set the refresh rate, in seconds.

If you already know the web pages or images file are sequenced by numbers, like pic0001.jpg, pic0002.jpg, then you can turn on the auto-increment feature to make the refresh function work like slideshow. 

1.4 Block Advertisements.  It is annoying to have too many advertisments cluttered on the web page. With IEBot's Ads Blocking function tuned on, you have option to block the ads like Google AdSense Advertisement from the Web Pages, and focus on the contents on the Web Pages.

1.5 Easy Image File Download. Many images file are prohited from being downloaded by Javascript. You can see it, but when you right click to save as file, you are stuck. IEBot can help you to download the files protected by Javascript. 

II. Menu Items and Buttons

2.1 Menu Items

2.1.1 View Options: Allow you to tell to IEBot what is/are the word/words in the Link to go to the next page to get the table data. The most common ones are "Next", "More"... etc.

2.1.2 View Source: All the user to view the page source in a structured way. You can view the Tables, the Inputs, the Forms, the Images, the Links, etc.

2.2.1 Help: to browse to this page.

2.2 Buttons

2.2.1 Get Table: get the table information from the current page. Please note that if the table span multiple pages, the IEBot will try to navigate to the next page(s) to get all the data. The result table table will be stored in a file called Pegasus.csv, as the comma separated Value (CSV) format.

2.2.2 Refresh: The users can start or stop the refresh activity by clicking on the Refresh button. When turned on, the refresh will happen on the number of seconds you set on the IEBot screen.  If you check on Auto Increment, you will get Slideshow effect, if the Web Pages or the Image Files are sequenced by numbers, like page0001.htm, page0002.htm, etc.

III. How to

3.1 How to Download Image files which are blocked by Javascript: Browse to the page you want to download images, click on IEBot icon, click View -> Source -> Images, then you will see a list of clickable images shown on a window, click any of them to view and download.

3.2 How to Setup the Advertisement Block function. You can choose the URL of the Ad Web Site you want to block. For example, if you want to block Google Adsense, just fill pagead2.googlesyndication.com into the text box labeled Ad Site URL under View -> Options. If you leave this text box empty, no Ads will be blocked.

 IV. Support Information