A quick question; is this possible?

[blackbooks]

Hi guys, I'm new so if I have put this in the wrong place then please move it or whatever you need to do.
What I am trying to do is make a microsite to do a simple task. I want to check stock levels of products in a retail store by using their website (but have the barebones to do that on a microsite). However the problem I am facing is that the way their site is set up I would have to find the product; add it to the basket; proceed to checkout; and then insert postcode to find out if the store has stock.

What I have managed so far is to create a search bar that will redirect me to the product on their website. I was wondering if there was a way I would be able to make the search bar find the product and then tell me stock of it without me needing to add it to basket etc.

Many Thanks.

[TheMichael]

Unless the site has an XML or RSS feed you can leech from, it will require some trickery. Either with complex JavaScript, or a server side scripting language like PHP (the idea being that you load their content quietly and parse it for information, then display parts of it).

Here's an example of a script I made to return the number of google search results for a keyword, using PHP+JavaScript. The parsing might be outdated though, since google made a few changes to their search results.

Fetch Pages Indexed with PHP and JavaScript (http://www.michaelhartmayer.com/php/fetch-google-pages-indexed-using-php-and-ajax/)