[NTLUG:Discuss] Automating Lynx

Jack Snodgrass jack+ntlug at mylinuxguy.net
Mon May 13 15:16:54 CDT 2002


have you looked at the 
-dump 
and 
-source
options? -dump writes formatted output to stdout. -source writes raw
html to stdout. 

there is also wget and other command line web page grabbers. 

jack

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Loafman" <ken at lt.com>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 1:36 PM
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Automating Lynx


> It appears that one should be able to automate lynx with popen3(),
> however, lynx seems to want to go directly to the console rather than
> stdin.  I seem to remember a mechanism to fool it, but its been a long
> time sine then, so I'm asking anyone here...  Is it possible to script
> lynx?
> 
> ...Thanks,
> ...Ken
> 
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