You can do this search:
http://bit.ly/AaS4oU[
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If will show you that there are cervices you can subscribe to to get locations by address or other search criteria.
You can find out if there is a Web service and act as a client. Even if the case of a regular Web site, you can perform HTTP requests programmatically (basically, simulating behavior of a regular user using a Web browser) to log in and start the search, and then get HTTP response and parse it.
This is practically the same technique as in
Web scraping:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping[
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Basically, you would need to use the classes
HttpClient or
HttpURLConnection and
ResponseHandler:
http://developer.android.com/reference/org/apache/http/client/HttpClient.html[
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http://developer.android.com/reference/java/net/HttpURLConnection.html[
^],
http://developer.android.com/reference/org/apache/http/client/ResponseHandler.html[
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First relevant code sample I've found was this one:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2323617/android-httppost-how-to-get-the-result[
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You can find some more using the above information for key words in Google search.
When you get a HTTP response, you would need to parse HTML code. Ideally, it's easy if the response is a well-formed XML. You can find some samples in this discussion:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2971155/what-is-the-fastest-way-to-scrape-html-webpage-in-android[
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If not, you would need some HTML parser which could deal with some code. You can try this one:
http://jsoup.org/[
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—SA
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