ℹ Tool which was used in research in 2015. Now in 2020 it's ready for the GitHub archive.

A simple command line website grabber that reads a single value from a website and stores it in a CSV file.
It's used to periodically monitor the SR Grid Frequency from the Power System Operation Corporation Ltd. - A Government of India Enterprise.

The parsed websites are:

• http://www.srldc.org
• http://www.nrldc.org

I also deployed it to google app engine, but at the end it was enough to run it on a local desktop PC.

The options will be provided during start as console input - The Grabber will aks for them.

• updateIntervall Update interval in seconds
• readingTimeout Timeout for loading the site in seconds

java -jar website-grabber.jar 

• start
• stop
• exit