Re: extract info form web pages

Adam Funk wrote:
On 2007-03-22, Dimitri Mallis wrote:
i was hoping for some script were i could type the URL, the key words & it
would extract information into a new page on my hard drive...

Perl's LWP modules can do the fetching and HTML-stripping for you, but
if you don't already know some Perl, you'd need to learn quite a bit.

If you are using Perl then also check out WWW::Mechanize and friends.

Cheers, Dave

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