data-harvest

The bus company I use runs an awful website ( Hebrew , English ) which making a simple "From A to B timetable today" query a nightmare. I suspect they are trying to encourage the usage of the costly SMS query system. I'm trying to harvest the entire timetable from the site, by submitting the query for every possible point to every possible point, which would sum to about 10k queries. The query result appears in a popup window. I'm quite new to web programming, but familiar with the basic aspects of python. What's the most elegant way to parse the page, select a value fro a drop-down menu, and

Somebody is trying to phish me, they are pretending to be one of my close friends to humiliate both of us. This person has created a fake email account, impersonating the person, and trying to get personal info out of me. I made sure with my friend that it wasn't actually him, now we're trying to figure out who it is. I want to send them a link to some kind of PHP or JS page, to collect at least a little info about their client (browser, operating system, maybe ISP location?), and then forward them to an actual website (like a youtube video or something). Having very basic knowledge of PHP, I