NA had this query - how to automate saving a particular web page ( Specified url in the settings ) at predefined intervals in a specific folder.
My reply:
I assume you want to do this on a Windows machine. On a Linux machine this is quite easy.
For Windows:
write a vscript file to save the webpage as given in
http://www.computerhope.com/
Schedule it to run periodically using Windows task scheduler as given at
http://www.iopus.com/guides/
Follow-up about making the filename unique for each grab:
filename changing can be managed by massaging the vbs file, appending the date-time to the filename or something like that. Since I'm not a vbs guru, I'm not spending time on it to modify the file for you. :)
Also, making Windows Scheduled tasks repeat tasks every few minutes:
http://support.microsoft.com/
NA reported that he has successfully implemented this.
My reply:
I assume you want to do this on a Windows machine. On a Linux machine this is quite easy.
For Windows:
write a vscript file to save the webpage as given in
http://www.computerhope.com/
Schedule it to run periodically using Windows task scheduler as given at
http://www.iopus.com/guides/
Follow-up about making the filename unique for each grab:
filename changing can be managed by massaging the vbs file, appending the date-time to the filename or something like that. Since I'm not a vbs guru, I'm not spending time on it to modify the file for you. :)
Also, making Windows Scheduled tasks repeat tasks every few minutes:
http://support.microsoft.com/
NA reported that he has successfully implemented this.
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