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From: Erik Iverson <eriki@ccbr.umn.edu>
Subject: Re: [babel] ob-web
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:23:32 -0600
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Sebastien,

This is probably pretty simple to do with a number of org-mode
supported languages.  Since I know R best, I can recommend the
RCurl package (http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/) for doing exactly
as you describe.

I'll look into an R implementation of this when I get some
time over break in the next couple weeks.

There are doubtless other solutions!

--Erik

S=C3=A9bastien Vauban wrote:
> Hi Eric, Dan & Co,
>=20
> A dream here: would we have an ob-web package, we could have easy block=
 codes
> for fetching some info from Web pages, possibly by giving as parameters=
 2
> delimiters (strings or regexps), and re-arranging it into tables when i=
t fits.
>=20
> Use cases: statistics from Google Analytics, prices for flights, etc.
>=20
> A potentiel show-stopper is, I guess, the fact that some (more and more=
) pages
> are accessible via HTTPS, like the Google Analytics ones.
>=20
> Is all of this do-able somehow: already, nearly, could be or never ever=
?
>=20
> Best regards,
>   Seb
>=20