Need help to write a bot to collect data from internet.

[athrun itachi]

Hi everyone,

I need to write a program to do the following features.

-connect to the net at regular schedule timing
-collect the data at the website.

May i know which library i should use?


Thanks in advance.

[Paul Sturrock]

You'll propably find the following useful:

java.util.Timer & java.util.TimerTask

java.net.*

java.util.regex (assuming you are looking for specific data, rather than just the whole page)

[athrun itachi]

Thanks Paul!

What should i use if i would like to store the info collected in a database?

[Paul Clapham]

JDBC.

[Rob Spoor]

Combined with java.sql