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Scriipting Question
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Fri, 8 Sep 2000 15:12:28 GMT
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I've got my personal web site (http://www.mike.faunce.com).
This is only very marginally Lego related -- I've got a little Lego stuff on
my site -- but I'm asking here because you guys seem to know things. :)
I'm trying to figure out how to automate a daily "task" of mine. I'm
interested in distributed computing and a section of my site is dedicated to
it. Most of the distributed computing projects have online statistics for
you to track your progress. So, each day I go to
http://www.mike.faunce.com/my_activity.htm and click through each of the
links in the Competitive Statistics table, enter a couple of the numbers
into a spreadsheet and go on my way --- click, write, back, click, write,
back, ... a lot of clicks and backs. (Yes, I'm a geek! Tracking this stuff
is even more "geeky" than participating!)
If you look at http://www.mike.faunce.com/version_2.htm you'll see a set of
tables for each of the projects and the statistics that I record. What I'm
trying to figure out how to do is obtain the highlighted fields from the
appropriate page.
Mail Bank, my site's host, doesn't offer any server side processing, so I
can't use CGI or server side scripts. So I started looking at JavaScript
and can't see a way to do it. I also took a quick look at VBScript and Ii
can't see a way to do it from there either.
What I'm looking for is a way that http://www.mike.faunce.com/version_2.htm
can have embedded scripts that "pull" the other pages (in the background),
filter them for the data points, format the data as appropriate and then
output it. I know that if I could get the raw HTML from the web page into a
JavaScript string (or string array) or a VBScript string that I could do the
parsing and formatting. The problem is: How do you open the HTML file from
a Java/VB script?
Am I wasting my time?
Any ideas?
Mike
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Mike Faunce
mike at faunce dot com
LUGNET #96
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| well, the way I'd do it, if I cannot do anything serverside, is have a _client_ pull the pages, do the calcs, and upload the result back to the server to be served... then you can use a cron job, running perl (for instance).... Dan (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish)
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