Accessing web elements from cli

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Author: Ted Gould
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Subject: Accessing web elements from cli
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You can also use lynx -source for this. I know that this outputs to
standard out. It should work nicely with a pipe.

        Have fun,
            Ted


On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 16:28, Darrell Shandrow wrote:
> Hi Kyle,
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> What you're looking for is a utility called wget, which is likely already=

to
> be on your system. Just do man wget, and let me know if I can help furth=

er.
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> Thanks.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kyle Faber" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 4:25 PM
> Subject: Accessing web elements from cli
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> > All,
> >
> > Fooling around with a little bash script and I was wondering if it is
> > possible to access web-based information utilizing the cli. For exampl=

e,
> how
> > could I get the following to actually work:
> >
> > grep "some string" http://www.somesite.com/textfile.txt
> >
> > the script is just not complicated enough to warrant anything more than
> bash.
> > Anybody have any ideas?
> >
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