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Is there a way to automatically copy text from a website and email it to me daily?
The scenario is this: my son’s teachers post his daily homework on a website. Each class has its own page. Rather than me visiting 7 pages every day (1 for each class) and manually copy/pasting the assignments into a master assignment document, I’d like to automate the process and have it emailed to me, so that if I’m working or in a meeting, I can just receive an email containing all the assignments copied from the different pages and don’t have to take the time to do manually do this every day.
Is this even possible? If so, please point me in the right direction.
I use a Windows 7 laptop and have Chrome, IE, etc. My email is gmail, yahoo, or Outlook (work-based Exchange server). The website on which the homework is posted does not require any logins and does not have any option to subscribe. My skill level is zero experience, but I'm willing to learn.
kgjulie
Posted 2015-08-19T21:56:19.663
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Some sites offer a RSS feed - perhaps that is also the case for the site you are referring to? Then you could either use a RSS reader or something like IFTTT to be notified via E-Mail.
– duelle – 2015-08-19T22:08:15.213Unfortunately, there is no RSS option on the homework site, nor any other way to subscribe to updates. Thank you for the suggestion, though! – kgjulie – 2015-08-19T22:13:05.553
Just to understand your requirement correctly: Would it suffice to trigger the check manually or should it be some kind of "check every x minutes/hours"? – duelle – 2015-08-19T22:15:59.197
If it could check once every day, maybe after school at 4 pm. In a perfect world, I would like it to just show up in my email without me having to do anything. – kgjulie – 2015-08-19T22:23:52.403
Do you have a machine that is always on or switched on every day at 4 pm? – duelle – 2015-08-19T22:26:23.337
Yes. It has Windows 7 and access to email via gmail/yahoo/Outlook and access to web via IE/Chrome/Firefox. – kgjulie – 2015-08-19T22:35:53.280
@Tyson You write "You could script this pretty easily on any linux computer that is always on, windows there is no easy way" <--- well that's obviously not true. You can use a 3rd party command written only for windows like sendemail, or you could use ports of *nix commands.. And even before powershell, there is and was vbscript which is old but probably more powerful than bash! http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21973581/send-email-through-vbs-script and there's jscript (quite oldold).. so it has been possible for years.
– barlop – 2015-08-19T22:39:15.537@barlop thanks I delete that statement... I never had luck with things like this in windows but do it frequently elsewhere – Tyson – 2015-08-19T22:51:26.830