Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition

Parsing data from a website

The lynx, sed, and awk commands can be used to mine data from websites. You might have come across a list of actress rankings in a Searching and mining text inside a file with grep recipe in Chapter 4, Texting and Driving; it was generated by parsing the http://www.johntorres.net/BoxOfficefemaleList.html web page.