[Zope-dev] Re. Scheduler product, anyone?

[Jerry.Spicklemire@IFLYATA.COM]

I had to do this just yesterday, and the urllib.py module made it absolutely
painless. Here's the simplistic little script I came up with, which could be
called by cron, or some other task manager. This ia probably way less cool
than 
the answer you're looking for, but it might give someone else some ideas . .
.

Later,
Jerry S.
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"""
	urlgrabr.py is a simple script to hit an URL, 
	capture the generated output, 
	and manipulate it, 
	based on parameters.

	e.g. save it as a file,
	
		python urlgrabr.py http://server/folder/object
file=filename.html
	
	
	Default is simply to request the URL, and exit, dumping all data.
"""

import urllib
import sys
import string

c_url	=  sys.argv[1]

c_action = None

u_url = urllib.urlopen(c_url)

if len(sys.argv) > 2	:
    
    	c_action = sys.argv[2]
    	
    	if string.lower(c_action[:5]) == "file="	:
    	
    		f_action = open(c_action[5:], "w")	#	file name
		for l in u_url.readlines()	:
			if string.strip(l[:-1])	:
				f_action.write(l)
		f_action.close()