Hacks 90-93

Hacks #90-93

It's rare that one script will solve all your data-grubbing needs. You might want, weekly, to know about new movies being listed on Amazon.com, grab a summary page from IMDB, find the last five movies that each actor or actress starred in, and then image-search and download pictures of them. On the other hand, you might be graphing important information and need to automatically grab the data every hour , day, or week. And what if you're downloading or mirroring data with wget [Hack #26]?

We have these great tools to automate our information needs, but how do we then automate the running of said tools? Where is our meta-automation?