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I'm looking for someone to harvest information from web pages. The information is about UK schools and UK councils.

schools first
start here
http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/oxedu_providers/list_providers/(type)/4096/(typename)/Primary%20schools/(year)/2008/(object_step)/10
then click on each school in turn like this
http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/oxedu_providers/full/(urn)/122603/(type)/4096/(typename)/Primary%20schools
and then harvest that information into a spreadsheet with the headings:
School name
School reference
address 1
address 2
address 3
town
city
postcode
phone 1
phone 2
pupils gender
pupils age range
pupils number on roll
school description
religious character
boarding provision
specialist status

repeat this for the secondary schools
http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/oxedu_providers/list_providers/(type)/8192/(typename)/Secondary%20schools/(year)/2008/(sort)/datesort,desc/(object_step)/10

and independent schools
http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/oxedu_providers/list_providers/(type)/16384,32768/(typename)/Independent%20education/(year)/2008/(sort)/datesort,desc/(object_step)/10

Councils second

start here
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Dl1/Directories/Localcouncils/index.htm
then click each of the headings which gives you the council details like:
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Dl1/Directories/Localcouncils/DG_4003592
then click on each in turn like
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Dl1/Directories/DG_10011371
and then harvest that information into a spreadsheet with the headings:

Council name
address 1
address 2
address 3
town
city
postcode
phone 1
phone 2
website address
opening hours

I think this is pretty straightforward is you're skilled with screen scraping software. Let me know. I need this really quickly. thanks


Additional information submitted:

07/23/2009 at 7:27 EDT:
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