Extracting Data From A Website?

[Vulcan]

I'm looking to extract data from a website, but was wondering what language would be most suitable to achieve this?

I would need it to just read through the HTML and find text between certain tags.

 

[eXor]

PHP and regular expressions are your friend.

 

[Una]

Depends on how specific your requirements are. It can vary from using a simple regex to a full blown HTML parser depending on what you want to do... I typically use python/perl or ruby because they have great text processing capabilities / parsers.

 

[voodooflux]

XPath is also worth considering - very well suited to scraping data from HTML pages. C#, Java, PHP, etc. all have XPath libraries.

 

[daven1986]

perl would be a good choice however depending on what you want the regex could get complex...

 

[Vulcan]

Edit: never mind, solved.