Thoughts on implementing this idea

[widox]

I am thinking of writing an application that downloads a file from
multiple servers, parses and aggregates them together, and puts them in
a database. Then using this info in the DB creates HTML pages
displaying those stats, probably once a day, or maybe even on-demand.
I'm not quite sure where to begin, and what language is best suited
for the job. Would Perl be well suited to do these things? Any
thoughts/ideas would be greatly appreciated. -Thanks

[Andrew Pressel]

widox wrote:

I am thinking of writing an application that downloads a file from
multiple servers, parses and aggregates them together, and puts them in
a database. Then using this info in the DB creates HTML pages
displaying those stats, probably once a day, or maybe even on-demand.
I'm not quite sure where to begin, and what language is best suited for
the job. Would Perl be well suited to do these things? Any
thoughts/ideas would be greatly appreciated. -Thanks

Absolutely, parsing data like that is what Perl does best.

you'll probably want to take a look at the LWP packages. This will help
you pull down the pages from the servers you want to use.

I use these packages currently to download the tour dates page from my
favorite band. Then I compare it to the previous run and email myself
any new dates that are added and removed.