-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Albert > A. Modderkolk > Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 3:23 PM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: OT - Tool to pull data from the web? > > On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 14:48 -0600, kevin.kempter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > > Hi all; > > > > I would like to pull data from some specific web pages that > have for sale ads > > and insert the data into a database. Anyone know ofany > tools that can help me > > with this? > > > > If you are familiar with Perl you could use the LWP package > to simulate > that you are a browser. > > Albert Yeah. It would depend on the data. You might be able to use wget, but even with that, you may want to wrap it in a (perl) script to filter out the junk you don't want. - - Charles Heselton charles.heselton <at> gmail <dot> com CELL: 619-261-6866 PGP KEY: 5A27 58D2 C791 8769 D4A4 F316 7BF8 D1F6 4829 EDCF In memoriam: http://www.militarycity.com/valor/1029976.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.1 iQA/AwUBQzMos3v40fZIKe3PEQJiQQCg4DhwAykz9pof7sYgDKw+YADbP9cAoKKC Tmlv2Auzuk2bEwuHr8VlPxkI =Qeh3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----