FW: Lynx???

[Joshua Keroes]

If that's all you're doing, a shell script will suffice:

	#!/bin/sh

	lynx -dump "http://www.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?feed=239&o=xml" > news.xml

If you intend on doing something else with the data, perl is keen. Here's
a one-liner to do the same thing, kinda. This one accepts the url as an
argument and lets you redirect the output to a file of your choosing.

	perl -MLWP::Simple -e "getprint(shift)" \
	  "http://www.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?feed=239&o=xml" \
	  > news.xml

(n.b. the URL has an '&' in it and needed to be quoted)

-Joshua

On (Tue, Jul 09 14:29), Aaron Kilbey wrote:
> Aloha everybody - 
> 
> I'm attempting to issue an http request through lynx to save an XML file
> to a local server. 
> Here's the code:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> newsdump.pl
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> system("lynx -dump http://www.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?feed=239&o=xml
> > news.xml"); 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 1. When I do: "bash$ perl newsdump.pl" I get a zero length news.xml
> 
> 2. When I do: "bash$ perl newsdump.pl > news.xml" I get a news.xml that
> is a numbered list of the news links which is not XML. 
> 
> 3. When I run http://www.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?feed=239&o=xml in a
> web browser, I get the XML document.
> 
> I need to have the ability to call this script to automatically retrieve
> and save the new file. Please help.
> 
> 
> -Aaron Kilbey
> 
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