Website Parse Script

I need a script that will run in cron to send an http request to a public job board website and collect information from it for personal use. The script would be run once a day. The steps would be as follows: 1. Send an http request. (something like "[login to view URL];payclass=1") 2. Get the output and search for a particular html table tag string. 3. Copy the contents of the table fields into a local text file. That's it. I know it should be pretty simple, but I don't know perl well so I can't do it easily myself.