Reputation: 211
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
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
Reputation: 21086
You can publish your script as a web app and allow people to view your results if necessary.
Upvotes: 4