I'm trying to pull content that's sitting in a database on the web. Is there any automated way to do this?

that's a very generalized question. what front end application are you using? if none what have you investigated? you can use perl, php, c# among others.

have you looked at a basic tutorial in any of these interfacing with a database? have you tried a web search?

whose database? yours or someone else's?

I tried using google which showed loads of examples - here's one.