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what tool or utility can be used to speed collecting text from websites that return jokes, sayings, pictures from queries

I need to collect a great deal of jokes, sayings and quotes, clipart etc. related to specific subjects. Is there any software, utility, robot or such that will aid in the collection or harvesting of above text and picture files and allow them to stored and categorized in ms excel or similar application

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Super cool Hashgocha Protis! interestingly after googling forever I suddenly got an email asking me to make a spreadsheet to help automate a bikur cholim effort. As I began working on the bikur cholim project, lo and behold a link showing how to use ms excel to get data from a webpage showed up! It worked like a dream! acces web data from excel

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I appreciate very much your emphasis on respecting the hard work and rights of other people. I do not put any jokes on my own website. I am a teacher and public speaker and spend a great deal of time looking for interesting things to keep my listeners awake while I lecture. The riddles quote etc. are kep for easy acces in my own excel spreadsheet on my personal hard drive.