This RosettaCode solution is relevant; it demonstrates how to use J & the JAL to scrape websites in a particularly functional/declarative/lazy way:
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code/Rank_l <http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code/Rank_l>anguages_by_popularity#J <http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code/Rank_languages_by_popularity#J> -Dan > On Jul 14, 2015, at 1:32 PM, David Lambert <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've used wget followed by processing in j making extensive use of member of > interval E. to find what I need, steering clear of the nice tools that I > mistrust such as regular expressions (as I recall j re core dumped the one > time I tried it, I doubt I reported) or html parsers. I had good results > treating the file as a text file ignoring the structure. >> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 22:19:32 +1000 >> From: "Ryan Eckbo"<[email protected]> >> To: "Programming forum"<[email protected]> >> Subject: [Jprogramming] html screen scraping >> Message-ID:<[email protected]> >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> I want to scrape some web pages and I am wondering if anyone here uses >> J to do so? Any tips? Otherwise I'll have to resort to python. >> >> Thanks for any suggestions, >> Ryan > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
