Hi Experts,
I'm working on a Word add-in in Visual Basic and I want to test it on lots of documents. In order to do that, I need to download lots of documents from many different sources from the internet. I've been doing it manually, but it is a very time consuming process. Is there a way to prepare a script that can do this for me? If so, what language does that need to be?
Manually, the procedure is:
Go to Google advanced search
Search for word documents in English
Select Region (sometimes UK, sometimes USA)
Select keywords (varies since I need variety but often words such as "final report" or "financial" or "scientific")
Run search
Download the first 20 matches
Test each one to see that it is long enough to be worth testing (minimum 3000 words)
As you can see, I'm wasting a lot of time trying to get the variety I need when I'm sure that there is a better way. How should I solve this in a way where the keywords vary and the region varies but the matches are always 3000+words? My programming background is fairly advanced in VB6 but I am not familiar with anything else and I am not familiar with the internet aspects of VB6.
Thanks in advance for any ideas that you can offer.
PatternNut
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