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Re: [OT] Grabbing the lottery results



On Tuesday 07 October 2003 21:30, Doogie Brodie wrote:
> Ant wrote:
> > do wget $@ http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/files/$file.csv;
do=
ne
>
> Ant, you da man!
>
> I don't f'ing believe it..... I looked for something like that, but
> couldn't find any info about it on the site, so had to write a screen
> scrape :S
>
> Live and learn!

Heheh ;)=20

>From a shell prompt you can just do:

wget=20
http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/files/{Lotto,Extra,Thunderball,Hot=
Picks,DailyPlay}.csv

(all one line, it'll prolly get wrapped)

ant
--=20
/\/\
www.ant.org  ('')  www.ant.org
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Megawatt Winged Avenger



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