how to use web service search/get methods

Question

i would like to be able to retrieve results from this search by connecting directly to their database instead of screen-scraping:

http://broinc.com/search.php

would it be possible to return the results programmatically into some variable, instead of manually doing this search and then going through every page to get the results?

Answer 1

If server provides such direct access, probably you may. For example, via SQL TCP/IP port.

But much more often used and best-practice way - via web service search/get methods.