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?