[GLLUG] Looking for some open source projects (local) to aid in

Clay Dowling clay at lazarusid.com
Mon Jan 4 22:16:35 EST 2010


Steven Sayers wrote:
> I'm sure it is, it could become more difficult depending on the format 
> / structure of the website, however.
>
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 1:32 PM, <user at qtm.net <mailto:user at qtm.net>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Hi Steve,
>     Is it possible to take some information from a web page then put
>     it in a database or spreadsheet?
>     Thanks,
>     Phil
>
For a project like that, use curl and the libxml tools.  I think there 
are tutorials on the curl project site and there are definitely some 
things at the libxml site.

Clay


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