[SATLUG] Shell script to fill out a web-based form

Sean Carolan scarolan at gmail.com
Wed Nov 10 16:25:05 CST 2004


On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 22:38:36 -0600, Travis Miller
<tmiller-lists at web-1hosting.net> wrote:
> Hello Sean,
> 
> My business partner is actually working for a company that does the very same
> thing (and more) with Adwords.  They use curl w/ PHP to do what is called
> "screen scraping".  Basically, you use curl to download the page, and then parse
> it and create another request (GET or POST depending) to continue along the
> process.  I can't remember what the name of the company he is contracting for is
> at the moment - I will try to remember to post tomorrow if you are interested.

Travis:

I'm *very* interested in getting my hands on a screen scraper that
would do that for me.  Please send me any more info that you can.

thanks

Sean


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