A simple script to determine which commandline web slurping tool you can use from cron

determine-cron-grabber

<?php
$utils = array ('/usr/local/bin/w3m', '/usr/bin/w3m', '/usr/local/bin/curl', '/usr/bin/curl', '/usr/local/bin/GET', '/usr/bin/GET', '/usr/local/bin/lynx', '/usr/bin/lynx',
                '/usr/local/bin/links', '/usr/bin/links', '/usr/local/bin/wget', '/usr/bin/wget');

$i = 0;
foreach ($utils as $util)
{
    $hit = is_executable ($util);

    if ($hit)
    {
        $works[$i] = $util;
        $i++;
    }
}

echo "You can use any of the following in your crontab:<br>";
foreach ($works as $choice)
{
    echo $choice . "<br>";
}
?>