Re: scripting an interactive web page

On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 22:48 +1100, Voytek Eymont wrote:
> I have access to a user/pswd authenticated web site, where, information
> may or may not be present
> 
> so, I need to log on, and see if any information is present.
> 
> what can I use to auto check periodically, so, it can notify me if any
> information is present?
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Voytek
> 


As suggested, curl will get the file for you and you have to interpret
the file once retrieved.

I have found the easiest solution to parsing HTML files is HTML::Parser
in perl.  You hook up a method to the reader and check where you are in
the file then extract the data you want.

Thanks
Ken

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