user1482923
user1482923

Reputation: 211

Simple Web-crawler (routine)

I'm a beginner programmer and I'm trying to create a database based on public information displayed daily by a public website (a small table of 50 rows and 5 columns). My ideia is to enter this website 4 times per day and store a table that is displayed in this website. I need some help/hints with the following points which I believe I should attack in order to build this database:

1) Which programming language should I use?

2) Where should I store the program?

3) Where it would store the data?

4) How should the program work? [two questions here: i) how to enter the website and store the data; ii) how to do it everyday, 4 times a day at specific times]

Any hints on any of these issues would be great. Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1692

Answers (2)

Flash Thunder
Flash Thunder

Reputation: 12036

You've got to be really beginning programmer if you ask ME what language should you use. I would answer with a question for that: and what language do you know?

The easiest way in my opinion would be small php script that would store information either in file or database run 4 times a day as cron job.

Upvotes: -2

Louis Ricci
Louis Ricci

Reputation: 21086

You can publish your script as a web app and allow people to view your results if necessary.

Upvotes: 4

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