How to harness information of the web

Hello Everyone,

I am not sure if I posting this to the right forum or not. So, I apologize before hand if this is not the forum for posting this question.

I want a script that would run weather in Windows or Linux that will gather the information of a website and save it in a file (maybe to a .xls file). I want to use a program because I want to search more than 1000s of pages. However, the good thing is that each page is identical to the other. For example, the program browses: http://www.xxxxxx.yyy/1.html and grabs a variable's content from inside and saves it to a file. Next it goes to: http://www.xxxxxx.yyy/2.html and does the same thing.

Can RUBY do this?

Thanks

re: How to harness information of the web

Yep, you should be able to do this with Ruby. You will probably want open-uri, which will allow you to open and read a web page. Throw this in a loop, and you should be good to go.