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How do I get information from a web page? I have several machines I check the temperature of, and instead of checking each web bot I would like to write something to grab only the temperature. Can someone point me in the right direction?

An example of the source from the page:

<TR>
                    <TD width="165" height="30" class="readingLabel"><FONT color="#000000" >Temperature (&deg;F) :</FONT></TD>
                    <TD width="45" height="30" align="right" valign="middle" class="readingText"><FONT color="#000000" > 86.7</FONT></TD>
                    <TD width="13" height="30" align="center" valign="middle" class="readingText">Yes</TD>
                    <TD width="45" height="30" align="right" valign="middle" class="readingText">87</td>
                </TR>

Would I even have to write a script to open each page, get the data, then close the page? Could I write something to bypass opening a page at all?

I'm new to scripting. ;)

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Dale

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