On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, nev young wrote:
On 08/07/10 12:33, Richard Parsons wrote:
By the way, I'm very excited to have found a browser that is easily scriptable. Suddenly it seems a breeze to write a shell script that will web scrape. Has everyone always been able to do this easily with other programs and I just never noticed?
I only have one script that reads a web page and I use w3m for that. I must look into edbrowse to see what if offers.
Thanks Nev, and Brett, for your replies.
I really like the unix philosophy: "Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface."
It seems such a step backwards to me to have a program that cannot easily be controlled from the commandline.
Currently I use alpine for email, but I want to start using edbrowse. It seems a real boon to me if learning to *use* a program is the same as learning to *script* it.
Programs like Firefox and Evolution are clearly marvellous achievements, but what a shame that the rise of the GUI necessitates the fall of interoperability between programs.