Gossamer Forum: General: Perl Programming: grab TOP BOX OFFICE

Aug 16, 2001, 11:19 AM

act

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Aug 16, 2001, 11:19 AM

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grab TOP BOX OFFICE

Hi, any can build a script to grab Top Box Office from yahoo or any web with Top box office such as http://movies.yahoo.com/
I want to put the box office table onto my homepage.

Any Help would be great appriciated.

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Aug 16, 2001, 11:46 AM

Stealth

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Aug 16, 2001, 11:46 AM

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LWP::Simple

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Aug 17, 2001, 1:11 AM

Andy

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Aug 17, 2001, 1:11 AM

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Try;

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use LWP::Simple;

$page = "/index.html";
$uri = 'http://movies.yahoo.com';
$get_page1 = "$uri" . "$page";
$page_content1 = get($get_page1); # put the contents from the page into a variable so we can play with it later

print "Content-type: text/html \n\n";
print "$page_content";

That would get the content from the page, and then store it into a variable. You could then use other codes to take out bits of whatever you want from that variable.

Andy

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Aug 17, 2001, 1:31 AM

Wil

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Aug 17, 2001, 1:31 AM

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Remember to ask Yahoo! what their stance on copyright is first.

If you poke around Yahoo! especially the 'linking to...' section you will find that Yahoo! does give a lot of it's content away free anyway.

Wil