website, login, parse html, output results...

[TheRudy]

Hi

First, i'm a complete noob to TCL scripting altho i know some programming languages.

What i want to do:
- Login to a website
- Parse out of URL SID (php) id
- attach this url SID id to another page that is protected (no SID in url = redirects back to login site)
- parses out this html code:

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<tr> 
<th>20  
<font color="87CEEB">*</font></th>
<th><a href="ainfo.php?session=3c546726f1fb&allytag=GP"><font color='lime'>GP</font></a></th>
<th>
 
</th>
<th>48</th>
<th>1564</th>
<th>32</th>
</tr>

Things that needs to parsed out are in bold:
<th>20 
<font color='lime'>GP</font>
<th>48</th>
<th>1564</th>
<th>32</th>

- next to output this into channel when someones says for example !stats

Now, i DO NOT want YOU to write me this script! I want to write it myself but i need some start up points. What do i need to this, where can i see some examples and so on...

[De Kus]

how is login done? via HTTP post?
how will the SID beeing returned? cookie? redirect? or will only be visible in URLs contained in the html codes?
generally there are 2 usual ways to parse HTML code
either via tDOM: http://forum.egghelp.org/viewtopic.php?t=9972
or via RE: http://forum.egghelp.org/viewtopic.php?t=4319
examples for REs are found in almost all common scripts accessing html pages. The google script I rewrote also shows an example for the redirect header parsing.