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Re: Extracting data from HTML
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Re: Extracting data from HTML


  • Subject: Re: Extracting data from HTML
  • From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:47:16 -0700

At 13:37 -0600 2/9/04, Irwin Poche wrote:
>Quite sometime ago I scripted IE to load a page ever so often, pull some information from the page, and write out a summary of that information.

Take the time to learn curl and perl. Curl will download the page and perl with its regular expression capability is great for extracting repeated information. The whole thing can be scripted and run with cron. A simple AppleScript can initiate the whole thing in Mac OS neXt but it will also run on a $20 Linux box without modification.

Ask off line for some samples which are quite simple so long as you don't get involved with https and certification of public keys.

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Applescript syntax is like English spelling:
Roughly, but not thoroughly, thought through.
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