Would Pyhon be the best language to use to create a program to run a search on a website every x minutes, parse the results, and send out the parsed information via email?

Question

What program language would be best to create a program that would query a website every x minutes on a windows system? Also, after getting the information, I would like to parse it and send the parsed information via email.

I had asked a similar question yesterday and it seemed like Python was the way to go but some also suggested wget. I added from yesterday's question the requirement to email the parsed results hence the repost.

Thanks.

Answer 1

This is very subjective - how are you defining "best"? This does not seem like a particularly performance-intensive application; I would use whichever language you are most comfortable with that will do the job. If you have more than one to pick from, pick the one that will let you complete the application the quickest.