Re: lynx-dev Web scraping and lynx - how to submit a POST type form

[David Woolley]

> The web site reports on the status of customer accounts and I am wanting
> to automate the retrieval of my status.

You should consider using nsgml to parse the HTML and then scraping that;
it is potentially more stable against layout changes and is using HTML
is a proper EDI fashion, although the page designers probably have not
intention of providing an EDI interface.

Please check the terms of use of the site; mechanical extraction of data
from a page is often against those terms.

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