Re: Slightly OT: Scraping tide info for house intranet page

["noel_pilot" <HA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ant,
Sorry for questions, that sounds perfect, my coding is almost minimal,
can handle html and a tiny bit of php but not dabbled in much more,
have found both ruby and perl extensions for dreamweaver (what I'd
normally use for sites/editing).  Any tips for how I'd get started
with either of your suggestions or any sample reading material that
might get me going!??!

Thanks

Noel


--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, ant <blowback@...> wrote:
>
> Gah, GMail's wrapped it. In the perl, the line starting
"print" and
> the next line should be joined. Same with the "Net::" line
in the
> ruby.
>
> ant
>
> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 2:35 AM, ant <blowback@...> wrote:
> > here's a bit of perl that will do the job:
> >
> > #!/usr/bin/perl
> > #
> > use LWP::Simple;
> >
> > $url =
"http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/coast/tides/tides.shtml?date=20080527&loc=0027";;
> > $start_delim = "<!-- tide chart stats open -->";
> > $end_delim = "<!-- tide chart stats close -->";
> >
> > my $content = get $url;
> >
> > if(defined($content)) {
> >    print "<table>\n$1\n</table>\n"
if($content =~
> > /$start_delim(.*?)$end_delim/s);
> > }
> >
> > Or some Ruby to do the same thing:
> >
> > #!/usr/bin/ruby
> > require 'net/http'
> >
> > url =
URI.parse("http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/coast/tides/tides.shtml?date=20080527&loc=0027";)
> > start_delim = "<!-- tide chart stats open -->"
> > end_delim = "<!-- tide chart stats close -->"
> >
> > Net::HTTP.get(url).scan(/#{start_delim}(.*?)#{end_delim}/m) { x
> > print "<table>\n#{x}</table>\n" }
> >
> >
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > ant
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Wayne <Wayne@...> wrote:
> >> If your ok with a bit of coding - you could always hack it
out in
real
> >> time :)
> >>
> >> Wayne.
> >>
> >> James - SJ Computers wrote:
> >>> You could use an iframe (Web Page inside another web
page)
> >>>
> >>> http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_iframe.asp
> >>>
> >>> James
> >>>
> >>> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 9:33 AM, noel_pilot
<HA@...> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>   awesome good find, thanks, will prob use that altho
interested to know
> >>>> how I could have scraped the other info if anyone
knows?!?!
> >>>>
> >>>> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx
<ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>,
"brougham Baker"
> >>>> <bro-yahoo@> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> From: "noel_pilot" <HA@>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Someone on here can hopefully help me,
starting to think
about a home
> >>>>>> intranet page with all useful stuff on there
and one think I
like to
> >>>>>> know is tides (i kitesurf as often as
possible).
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Easiest source of information for this
purpose I think is the
bbc,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> There are other sources-
> >>>>>
> >>>> http://www.googleminiapps.com/tools/tides-gadget/
> >>>>
> >>>>> for e.g. That looks to have plain text output.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> My work mates also use the one on iGoogle
homepage too.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Bro
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
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