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[krunkosaurus]

Hi everyone, I'm new to the community and would like to introduce myself! I'm a pretty good JavaScript programmer but my experience with GreaseMonkey is less so with only about 2 scripts under my belt. I'm fascinated with greasemonkey's xmlhttprequest object and it's ability to send cross-domain requests. I'm planning to write some kind of web

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[vinnie_tesla]

Seems like an odd match of the tool and the job. So you'll just keep a browser window open for a couple weeks for the project to run? Wouldn't it make sense to just run a Perl script or something?

[krunkosaurus]

The short of it is - I know not perl. :[

But the long of it because I know these 3 technologies, and I have easy access to specific elements through DOM instead of using crazy regEx'ing.

Previously, I made a CL script that when you roll over each link on a CL page it will search the linked page for images and display them beneath the link on the top page. (It's actually more efficient than one would think because none of the inner page's linked files are downloaded while search and retrieving.) It gave me the idea that I could use the same approach to send xmlhttprequests of the inner pages' contents to a PHP page for storing. I would run this script once a day. I like this method because once I set up the PHP script, I would just adjust the greasemonkey script minutely to do any other site.

Could you tell