On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 10:10 AM, Eric D. <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I'm at my the end of my rope and can only think to
>turn here for info
>sources. I need to be able to download and save
>web pages on an hourly
>schedule.
>
>Is there a web site which could provide me with
>AppleScript help (like
>http://www.htmlgoodies.com for HTML)?
>Alternately, is there a way to tell
>AppleScript to relaunch a script after an hour or do
>something after an
>hour? After that I'll have to get an automated
>method of extracting the data
>off those pages but that's an AppleScript project for
>another day (don't
>have the spare time to devote to that)
>
>I really don't want to go that route b/c that would
>entail having the
>computer on 24 hrs/day but the site I normally get
>24 hours worth of weather
>data no longer provides the data in a format that I
>can use (graphics are
>useless for data mining).
>
>Thanks, a desperate Eric.
Hi Eric,
Try the Usenet newsgroup
alt.comp.lang.applescript
I've read a little of it once in awhile and the amount of time involvement
with help in writing scripts is sometimes quite impressive.
In spite of the name of the group, it's not just for AppleScript; the
person who wrote the charter favors Perl, so he wrote it stipulating Perl
too. The majority of the posts relate to AppleScripting, of course. Anyway,
if you state upfront that you'd also be willing to put Perl onto your
machine and could go with either kind of script that anyone might know of,
someone might come up with an existing Perl script that would work, or
would even write one for you, you never know. Some of those people really
love scripting and enjoy helping others. (At least that used to be the
case; I haven't visited in awhile. As usual on Usenet, some trolls live
there too.)
--
Best wishes,
Mary
<http://www.2mbit.com/~mgrimsley/>
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