Re: Bash script for database searching using crontab

From: Cameron Kerr (cameron.kerr_at_paradise.net.nz)
Date: 01/29/04 

Date: 29 Jan 2004 20:56:44 +1300

saurya_s <saurya_s@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all
> I usally do database search for references everyweek at PubMed
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed
> Now, can I automate this:

If you just want to be notified of when there is a change in the search
results, you have at least two options.

1) This one is easy. Use Mozilla (other browsers offer this too), and
tell it (via bookmark properties) to check it every day and to open it
(or whatever) when it changes. Simple.

2) This one is difficult, and requires knowledge of Perl. If you want
something more complicated, such as an email giving you the new entry,
then you would need to "scrape" the HTML, which is a task suited to a
Perl script. I've looked at the source of the search result page, and it
looks like it shouldn't be too difficult to find what you want amongst
it. 

-- 
Cameron Kerr
cameron.kerr@paradise.net.nz : http://nzgeeks.org/cameron/
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