Re: [MLUG] Automated web search

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typing from pda, so brief...

Google alerts is great -- can limit to nytimes.com if you like.

Otherwise, a linuxy solution can use crontab for scheduling and lynx
or wget to snag a page.  remember to use -auth or somesuch for login.

Mike




On 1/1/08, Jim Locke <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> A friend asked me the following question.  While I have ideas (primarily
> bookmarking this search, and seeing if Firefox will do something like
> automatically viasit the bookmark on a scheduled basis and  spit the result
> page out), I'm sure some here have better ideas.  Thanks in advance!
> ---------
>
> "Do you know any programs that run automated web searches?  For example,
> let's say I want to run the following Google search every morning at 2am:
>
>       china OR PRC OR beijing -hu-jintao site:www.nytimes.com inurl:2007/12
>
> I know about RSS feeds, but I don't think they will meet my needs.  What I
> imagine is something that would basically run like a chron page into which a
> user could enter a search engine (Google, Yahoo, etc.) and a query string.
>  The program would run a search on the string at the selected time, then
> spit out a search result page in HTML, TXT or some other common format.  Do
> you know of anything like that?"
>
> --
> - Jim Locke.
>


-- 
Michael B. Miller, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
and Institute of Human Genetics
University of Minnesota
http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/~mbmiller/

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