Scripting to Extract Data from a Web Page

From: Bob Tilley (AT&T) (bobt_at_cocoa.tybrin.com)
Date: 03/30/04

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    Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 09:17:38 -0500
To: <debian-users@lists.debian.org>, <debian-kde@lists.debian.org>

    When visiting www.pricewatch.com, users can select from a category of hardware. If "hard drives" is chosen, a split window is used to display the minimal prices in all sub-categories. A small example follows:

    <SNIP>
    $80 - EIDE 160GB
    $67 - EIDE 120GB
    $62 - EIDE 100GB
    $49 - EIDE 80.0GB
    <SNIP>

    I wish this information displayed on my desktop.

    The application would connect to www.pricewatch.com, read all categories of merchandise, select a catagory, and read the pricing information. Depending on how the app is configured, you could display all Hard Drive prices on your desktop.

    Wait! I was going to seek ideas about the construction of such an animal, but KDE 3.2.1->Control Center has an option to display a web page on the desktop. I'll investigate that solution.

    Thanks for listening as I thought,

    Robert Tilley
    tilleyrw@cfl.rr.com

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