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a friend of mine wrote a script, which read information from other sites e.g. number of followers 3 ppl had and displayed them on his website. I was interested in doing such things. I searched for scripting and found out there are many scripting languages. How would I chose which one to learn? are they all the same? which one do u prefer to do my task? and finally any good reference you suggest? where I stand now: im basically starting from zero in scripting but I know how to code C, C++, HTML... Thanks=)

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If the sites you want to read from have an API for doing this (e.g. Twitter) then I would take a look at something like Yahoo! Query Language.

If they don't have an API then this Wikipedia article may be a good place to start: Web scraping

There's no specific language which is best for doing this kind of thing, it's down to what you prefer. I expect there are some C++ libraries out there for doing this.

Tom Robinson
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  • thanks i looked at facebook, twitter queries. I dont have any work experience in scripts, which language do u advice me to start from? – Syntax_Error May 11 '11 at 09:34
  • @Syntax_Error If you fancy trying something new, how about Python and Beautiful Soup? http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ – Tom Robinson May 11 '11 at 09:39