[YLUG] Lynx -source with a wait

[Stephen Patterson]

On 13 Jun 07, Robert Hulme (rob at robhulme.com) wrote:
> A colleague at work is having a problem and I thought maybe someone
> out there would have an idea of how to solve it.
> 
> He wants to get the html of a page which is pretty easy to do in lynx
> with the -source command.
> 
> What makes this more tricky is that he wants to load a page which
> refreshes once or more before displaying the actual page he wants the
> data from (it's a biological service page, you get a "Please wait
> calculating... type page first".

If he knows how the proper page is going to start he could repeatedly
fetch & pause until the right content comes back by grepping the lynx
--source output.

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