From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 28 13: 5:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from megapathdsl.net (snowbird.megapath.net [216.200.176.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B85AB37B422 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:05:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jasonc@concentric.net) Received: from [63.209.136.118] (HELO mgm) by megapathdsl.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.4.3) with SMTP id 20804131 for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:04:22 -0700 Message-ID: <000701c0d01e$dbc6a980$89941bd8@speakeasy.net> Reply-To: "jason" From: "jason" To: Subject: script to pull data from web tables Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 16:07:30 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Maybe some of you scripting gurus can help me get started on this. I was wondering if there was an easy way to write a script or some other method to pull setiathome data from a setiathome team statistics web site (or any website based table) and import it into a mysql or any other database where I can generate my own more detailed statistics. I am interested in getting daily snapshots so I can chart progress and performance on a daily basis. Currently I have an ms spreadsheet I update manually and then I have to manually move the output data into a static web site for others to view. I would like to automate as much of this as possible. So first off is data collection. I think I have a good handle on how to deal with data calculation. If you just have a link to a place where I can get a "for dummies" like guide to scripting that would actually be more helpful as I would like to learn more about this stuff and the possibilities that may exist. The more I can get BSD to do automatically the less manual work I have to do on Win98 boxes. Maybe someday I can get to the point of having only one Win98 box here just for games and have all the real work running on BSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message