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Task/Web-scraping/REBOL/web-scraping.rebol

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+REBOL [
+	Title: "Web Scraping"
+	Author: oofoe
+	Date: 2009-12-07
+	URL: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Web_Scraping
+]
+
+; Notice that REBOL understands unquoted URL's:
+
+service: http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl
+
+; The 'read' function can read from any data scheme that REBOL knows
+; about, which includes web URLs. NOTE: Depending on your security
+; settings, REBOL may ask you for permission to contact the service.
+
+html: read service
+
+; I parse the HTML to find the first <br> (note the unquoted HTML tag
+; -- REBOL understands those too), then copy the current time from
+; there to the "UTC" terminator.
+
+; I have the "to end" in the parse rule so the parse will succeed.
+; Not strictly necessary once I've got the time, but good practice.
+
+parse html [thru <br> copy current thru "UTC" to end]
+
+print ["Current UTC time:" current]