RosettaCodeData/Task/Web-scraping/REBOL/web-scraping.rebol
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REBOL [
Title: "Web Scraping"
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]