What I want to do is create personalized mass-downloaders for specific sites. As such I need to be able to tell my programs to (a) download files at specified URLs, (b) view a specific URL's HTML source and store it all in a string or something, so that I can regular-expression for the link I want (unless anyone has a better idea?).
I know Java and Perl, so I'd like to know how I can do all that with either of those languages? And if I can't, could someone tell me what languages can?
Thanks.