The web site for the book Wicked Cool Shell Scripts offers some excerpts from the book online. One that I particularly like (because I like Lynx) is the script to Track BBC News with Lynx.
In that chapter, the author teaches you how to scrape content from the BBC news site. It's a great tutorial, and there are several other free examples from the book Wicked Cool Shell Scripts.
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