[plug] Best platform/language to setup a simple web scraper

[Brad Campbell]

On 13/03/13 18:33, Fred Janon wrote:
> I am not sure why you even need to run that on a server. A python (or
> any other language) program could be run on your local machine and
> display the results without the need of a server, emails... That might
> be a lot simpler.
>

I was going to second this vote for python, but then I thought about 
why. Python is a natural choice for *me* because I know it well enough 
to be slightly dangerous.

To be honest, I'd use whatever language you are naturally proficient in. 
Web scraping is not exactly a black art, or overly difficult. I've done 
plenty of it with wget and bash.