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Originally Posted by post 10
Actually, this problem may be easier than people have so far seem to have supposed. Excel can import CSV files, which can be created by any programming language you care to name. Further, there are many libraries available for languages like Perl and Python that can "scrape" information from a website. In theory, one could have a program harvesting the information from the website, and dumping the results in a CSV file. Said CSV file can then be imported into Excel, and bingo: you have a spreadsheet.
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Originally Posted by post 8
You could do it with a number of languages, including Python.....request the resource directly from the server and scan its contents, including parsing for HTML tags and entities....merely write out the file in a form (such as .csv) readable by Excel.
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Guess I missed those possibilities
. It still isn't trivial.