st: Download and parse html files

[Sebastian Bauhoff <sbauhoff@gmail.com>]

Dear Statalisters,

I need to download a large number of html files from the internet and 
parse their content.  The structure of the html pages is always the 
same, and I need to extract only a small part that is identified within 
the html code.  I would like to use Stata to download the files, extract 
the information I want, and save the result in a dataset.  Any 
suggestions or pointers much appreciated.

Thanks,
Sebastian
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