reading html data from a web page

[shipar]

is it possible to read a specific data from a defined web page of a defined website? if possible please help for this.............or suggest me which language is appropriate for that.

[Salem]

Perl is good.
PHP might be better.

[shipar]

the defined page will be remain opened in the browser window and then the data have to be read........does this need any kind of scripting language?

[Salem]

You don't need a browser just to read HTML from a website.

[Lycaon]

I believe libCurl for C/++ can achieve this, though it would be overkill:
http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/

Otherwise, Python is a nice alternative too.

[shipar]

thanks Lyacon, thanks a lot. but i couldn't understand "though it would be overkill:".

thanks & thanks..............