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Old September 7th, 2000, 07:00 AM
erwin.heukels erwin.heukels is offline
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I want to build an automatic script which performs the following actions:

1) connect to a secure site with my username & password
2) navigate through the pages to find some quotes.
3) scrape these quotes from the pages
4) compile these into a SMS-message
5) send this SMS-message to a list of GSM Phonenumbers

I have the availability of a cable connected Linux-server to perform these actions on.

Should I write a crontab? Any other suggestions?

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Old September 11th, 2000, 03:45 AM
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I would suggest you write a Perl-script. This can retrieve the info from the web for you. You can request the page using LWP::UserAgent and use Regular Expressions to scrape the quotes from it.

However I'm not sure how to send the SMS from there. Maybe there is site that you can put a request to with the info in the querystring, which will send it to you.

Indeed you then can use cron to have executed every morning.

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Old September 11th, 2000, 04:47 PM
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by MeijdenB:
I would suggest you write a Perl-script. This can retrieve the info from the web for you. You can request the page using LWP::UserAgent and use Regular Expressions to scrape the quotes from it.

However I'm not sure how to send the SMS from there. Maybe there is site that you can put a request to with the info in the querystring, which will send it to you.

Indeed you then can use cron to have executed every morning.

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In the UK we have plenty of email to SMS gateways.

Or in the UK you could go with a specialist SMS house if you wished to do this as a commercial operation.

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