A web page is updated daily with figures that I want to A web page is updated daily with figures that I want to read, manipulate and store in a master spreadsheet.
I know the address of the web page.
Manually I can do the job by:
a. Use a browser to get the web page on the screen
b. Use, on the browser, Edit->Select all – to select the entire contents of the page;
c. Use cntrl c – to copy the page contents;
d. Opening a temporary spreadsheet;
e. Use cntrl v – to paste the copied contents of the web page into spreadsheet;
Use Perl to read, manipulate and store what I want in another spreadsheet.
Can any Monk point me in the right direction (ideally with prototype Perl or links) of how I can do the initial steps a to e using Perl?