Re: [gNewSense-users] Gold Price Tracker?

[Trevor Vallender]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 09:38:25PM +0800, Koh Choon Lin wrote:
> >> Do you know of any 'free as in speech' widget or application to track
> >> the price of gold/ounce real time in gNS? It can be GUI or CLI.
> >
> > Getting a real-time data feed is the hard part.  The software should be
> > fairly trivial.
> 
> Well, I found one live feed at:
> 
> https://online.kitco.com/scripts/cgi-bin/texten.pl
> 
> Anyone idea on a script to pull data off this site?
> 
> 
> 
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> Koh Choon Lin
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Might be doable with an RSS scraper (such as the one at 
rssscraper.rubyforge.org)
and then any feed aggregator you care to use. Not sure how well that would work.

Trevor Vallender