Subj : Re: Novice needs help!
To   : comp.programming
From : Rob Thorpe
Date : Tue Aug 09 2005 10:01 am

programmernovice@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi, I'd like to learn to extract information from websites
> automatically, the information is available manually but it takes a
> long time to extract this way.  I know a few basics such as looping,
> "if" statements, etc, but unfortunately learned programming in the
> Fortran days!  I know nothing about "object-based languages"
>
> I'd appreciate all information concerning how to go about learning
> this, such as the optimum language to learn,  and what sources such as
> books, etc. to acquire to begin.   All help greatly appreciated.

Wget may be useful to bring a copy of a website to a local disk for
analysis.

See:
http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html

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