[dundee] Fwd: Help required

[Gary Short]

cUrl | grep | clever stuff | job done. :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dundee-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:dundee-
> bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Andrew Clayton
> Sent: 01 November 2011 15:08
> To: dundee at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Cc: A P Carena
> Subject: Re: [dundee] Fwd: Help required
> 
> On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 12:18:05 +0000, gordon dunlop wrote:
> 
> > We (Medical Physics, Ninewells Hospital) have a "web" based ordering
> > program which we have to use. This program does not feedback any
> > information in real time or even on a daily basis. We were wondering
> > if there would be a way of capturing the information from the input
> > screens or writing a program which would once a day interrogate the
> > web based program's order status search facility.
> 
> Note: I neither work at Ninewells or Dundee University and have never seen
> the system in question.
> 
> However, your second options seems like the more practical one.
> 
> In very simple terms, something like the following:
> 
> wget
> http://www.ordersystem.com/search/?date=today&category=instruments -
> O search.html
> 
> That will give you a html file called search.html with the contents of
your
> search results. From there you'd need to parse that file, to extract the
> information you need in the format you want it.
> 
> Apologies if this isn't at all what your after.
> 
> Andrew
> 
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