[mythtv-users] OT: How to submit form, retreive web page and save it to a file?

Cal Evans cal at calevans.com
Thu Apr 22 17:28:35 EDT 2004


oh yea...and
http://www.holotech.net/scripts.html
I think PostIT will do what you want.

Let me know how I may be of service,
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William wrote:
> I am preparing to write a ppv listing utility for Dishnetwork and I am
> stumped as to how to pull the info I need from the provider's web site. What
> I need to do is to be able to fake the submission of a html form and then
> retreive the data returned. I don't think that 'wget' supports the ability
> to send form data and I didnt see any command line hooks into Mozilla.
> Please correct me if I am wrong on the above programs.
> 
> How would you go about this data retreival process? 
> 
> I can do all the processing in windows pretty easily but I would prefer to
> keep it pure Linux so everyone can use it.
> 
> TIA,
> Bill
> 
> 
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