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Originally Posted by Patola View Post
Since it requires lots of string manipulation and doesn't really need speed-optimized code, using C++ for that would be quite unproductive. Best is to use a script language - my personal preference is perl with WWW::Curl (due to the string manipulation part) but you can also use python-pycurl, which is on the repositories.
But as for actually accessing the elements on a web page? Would I read it using an XML parser?