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shao		Posted :: 8:40am, Sun, Apr 8, 2007 Subject :: Example for code to retrieve information from www

Posts: 3		Hi, I just found energy mech, installed and liked. But I'm pretty new in C lanquage (in any lanquage that is) and was wondering if someone could give an example code of how to add command for bot to retrieve information from internet website ie: In channel, by typing .train 1 bot connects to http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Amtrak/Page/Routes_Index_Page&c=Page&cid=1080072922209&ssid=4 (or some web page, this is just lame example), enters train numer or such and send info about that train to irc channel.
proton		Posted :: 4:30am, Wed, Apr 11, 2007

Posts: 165		that is a complex task, more than a few lines of code.
shao		Posted :: 6:02am, Wed, Apr 11, 2007

Posts: 3		Yeah that's what I thought also. quite simple to open socket connection to certain port to certain sever, but getting right stuff from there is quite hard. I think especially stability is the problem there.. I might have to go back to Python, because in python it's quite easy to do and I almost have re4ady script for it (not tested tho =) ). This pisses me off, I really like emech's code, but on the other hand, really need to make that socket thingy working and I don't have skills to do it... - Should save coding to those who know how to do it =) -
proton		Posted :: 11:22am, Wed, Apr 11, 2007

Posts: 165		opening a socket is easy enough, doing it without freezing the entire bot is the hard part i even put a small experimental web server in the mech but never made anything out of it
shao		Posted :: 11:35am, Wed, Apr 11, 2007

Posts: 3		Any ideas of how hard it will be to sink some python code to emech? Make Python part handle www discussions and core bot running on C?
proton		Posted :: 12:45pm, Wed, Apr 11, 2007

Posts: 165		nope, no idea, never touched python