Thread: How to make a program to gather internet data

Hello.

So I'm a major noob. I know the basics about programing.

So I need to gather a massive amount of data on the internet that sometimes is not readilly available. For instance I'm gathering expenditure data from the city of Rio de Janeiro. Unfortunatly I have to browse the data by each month then copy and paste it into an excel file.
The example's site is:
Rio Transparente

(It's in portuguese... O.o)


This kind of thing happens a lot. Can someone help me? At least point me in the right direction?

Thank you very much.

To gather html pages, I would recommend using jsoup, a Java library. Very nice package.