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  • 19-07-2009 3:32pm
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    The_Daddy_H
    Registered Users Posts: 200 ✭✭


    Hi,

    Just wondering if anybody could point me in the right direction on this one.

    What I'm basically trying to do is write a program to grab information off a webpage which is continually updating itself. I dont want to say take millions of screen shots, I just want the program to constantly monitor a particular part of the screen and store information.

    Basically Im not necessarily looking for the cleverest way of doing this, rather a way which I can program myself. My background is that I have a functional knowledge of C programming for scientific purposes but very little knowledge of computers themselves. For instance I can write programs but dont even know how to take information in from the screen.

    Thanks for any help.


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    --amadeus--
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,096 ✭✭✭--amadeus--


    What you want to do is called screen scraping - a quick Google should get you started but this might be worth a quick look


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