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    Can someone make me a simple program?

    WELL i would like a program that pulls certian parts off certian web pages so that i dont have to keep refreshing....

    For example on this page i would require these bits...

    Rank: 11,716
    Army Size: 748
    Treasury: 78,521

    and mabey the ability to have more than one set of things showed?? eg the a few different players of the game??

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    there are tons of freeware/opensource web spiders out there. Just tell it to spider the page for matching content

    Army, Treasury etc

    Or look at wget - get the page then manipulate the text to only display what you want.

    Drop me a note if you want a hand.
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    note dropped.... i didnt catch ANY of what you just said :S

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    I havn't got any messages anywhere ? so I don't know were you dropped me a note

    a spider is a program. that "spiders" webpages. google uses a very advanced version of this to gather content from webpages.

    If you have a look on sourforge, freshmeat or download.com for some spiders and have a play with some, you'll soon see what I mean.

    wget is a program that goes and "gets" what you tell it to, and it has internet protocols built in.

    so you can do wget http://www.mysite.com/page1.html

    wget will go away and get the html content of the site so you'll get a file that contains that page.

    once you have this you can manipulate it using say find on windows or grep on unix systems for the bits you need, eg: Army, Treasury and then display that how you want

    easy to do in a cmd script or shell script.
    It is Inevitable.....


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