Fetching data from another website
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Hi, I am developing a web application which requires the following to happen. Go to another web site. The web site informs me of schedule no. x. After clicking on a hyperlink, I am transported to the page containing html file names in the ftp directory. I pick up the respective file whose file name bears the schedule number X. I download the html file in my local filesystem. The data represented by the html file is in columnar format. I need to pick up data in the last column of the html file. Now what I need is a)Is there any method to monitor the change in schedule no from x to y (from schedule 1 to 2 and so on). In other words polling the other website for change in its specific piece of data b)Pardon my asking but how will I fetch the columns from the html file. I have a feeling this is going to be real dirty job of extracting information from the html file Any pointers to dazzle :omg: baffle :confused: me. Regards v1i9n6o7d
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Hi, I am developing a web application which requires the following to happen. Go to another web site. The web site informs me of schedule no. x. After clicking on a hyperlink, I am transported to the page containing html file names in the ftp directory. I pick up the respective file whose file name bears the schedule number X. I download the html file in my local filesystem. The data represented by the html file is in columnar format. I need to pick up data in the last column of the html file. Now what I need is a)Is there any method to monitor the change in schedule no from x to y (from schedule 1 to 2 and so on). In other words polling the other website for change in its specific piece of data b)Pardon my asking but how will I fetch the columns from the html file. I have a feeling this is going to be real dirty job of extracting information from the html file Any pointers to dazzle :omg: baffle :confused: me. Regards v1i9n6o7d
Probably best done through a webservice.
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