Can I scrape flash?

Question

I\'d like to scrape a website to programmatically collect any external links within any flash elements on the page. I\'d also like to collect any other text, if possible, bu

Answer 1

As a very crude first step you could use Google to get a text snippet out of the swf, given that the swf has been indexed by Google and that you know it's URL. e.g:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww.michaelgraves.com%2Fmga.swf