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

David Singer david at ramaboo.com
Tue Jan 5 00:33:33 EST 2010


ROR has some great tools for this. google screen scraping.

David

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Clay Dowling <clay at lazarusid.com> wrote:
> 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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