Grabbing text from a webpage

Question

I would like to write a program that will find bus stop times and update my personal webpage accordingly.

If I were to do this manually I would

1. Visit

Answer 1

You can use Perl to help you complete your task.

use strict;
use LWP;

my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new;

my $responce = $browser->get("http://google.com");
print $responce->content;

Your responce object can tell you if it suceeded as well as returning the content of the page.You can also use this same library to post to a page.

Here is some documentation. http://metacpan.org/pod/LWP::UserAgent