user619: E.g., if I wanted to create a cron script that would grab the latest spot price every hour and store it in a local file or database, what would be the place to "scrape" that information from?
(Actually writing the script is not the problem, in my case.)

user632: You could try using www.btcrate.com as well, which supports additional currencies (should you need them).

user22: You could use the JSON encoded ticker data available from MtGox at: https://mtgox.com/api/0/data/ticker.php
Just use whatever your language's equivalent to cURL or wGet is and parse as appropriate.

619: <p>E.g., if I wanted to create a cron script that would grab the latest spot price every hour and store it in a local file or database, what would be the place to "scrape" that information from?</p>

<p>(Actually writing the script is not the problem, in my case.)</p>
 632: <p>You could try using <a href="http://www.btcrate.com">www.btcrate.com</a> as well, which supports additional currencies (should you need them).</p>
 22: <p>You could use the JSON encoded ticker data available from MtGox at: <a href="https://mtgox.com/api/0/data/ticker.php">https://mtgox.com/api/0/data/ticker.php</a></p>

<p>Just use whatever your language's equivalent to <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php">cURL</a> or <a href="http://www.gnu.org/s/wget/">wGet</a> is and parse as appropriate.</p>
