2016 Update

Task/Web-scraping/Lua/web-scraping.lua

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+local http = require("socket.http")    -- Debian package is 'lua-socket'
+
+function scrapeTime (pageAddress, timeZone)
+    local page = http.request(pageAddress)
+    if not page then return "Cannot connect" end
+    for line in page:gmatch("[^<BR>]*") do
+        if line:match(timeZone) then
+            return line:match("%d+:%d+:%d+")
+        end
+    end
+end
+
+local url = "http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl"
+print(scrapeTime(url, "UTC"))