[YLUG] Lynx -source with a wait

Arthur Clune arthur at clune.org
Fri Jun 15 10:54:04 BST 2007


On 14 Jun 2007, at 21:51, aardvark llama wrote:

> Alternatively there are some neat perl modules -- or equivalent- 
> scripting-langue-du-jour -- that will let you eat the html, pull  
> out the interesting lines and write it out in a nicely formatted  
> report.

Gets my vote for this sort of thing. sh gets unmaintainable quickly  
once you are into parsing HTML IMO.

In python, look at Beautiful Soup:

http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/



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