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I'd be interested to know what you programmed this in. Do the .HTML pages mean you used PHP? If them, cURL?

Lemme know.




I use FreeBSD's fetch(1) to download the page, but curl or wget would have worked just as well. Extracting the data I want (item #, score, and link) is a few lines of perl. Managing the data over the course of the day and writing out the final HTML is done using standard BSD text utilities (sort, join, comm, cut).


Thanks!




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