RE: Just getting started

[Jennifer Lori Carpman]

Robin,   If you find you're grabbing too much, limit the selection.      a) see if there are natural divisions in the site and upload each individually (ie: instead of grabbing all www.mylocalnewspaper.com, take www.mylocalnewspaper.com/august2004, or instead of all the reviews on a site, take all the sci-fi ones first (see if they all start with the same address) and so on, doing each month (division) in smaller chunks).  If the site only has the www.whatever.com as its common denominator, and then all individual pages are randomly named, you can't do this.  But if for example all sc-fi reviews start with www.whatever.com/sci-fi and all the romance ones /romance, etc..., you can pluck these groups individually for smaller files.  You can also limit the size by turning off pictures or making them grayscale as opposed to full color or thousands of colors.   b) specify your limits.  For example recently I plucked a review websites all about cool tech gadgets.  The site is www.the-gadgeteer.com.  I first tried to pluck the one page that has every single link to all their reviews.  Not only did it keep freezing, but the finished file (had it worked) would have been over 60 megs, and while I had room on my card, the palm doesn't always want to open files this large.  So I broke it into chunks.  I noticed that another page had subdivisions for the reviews (palmos, toys, etc...) and that all reviews in that category began with that address (like in the example above).  So I set up 8 different plucker files, 1 for each category.  But my new problem was that at the bottom, after all the reviews, were dozens and dozens of third-party links to sites off the gadgeteer site.  I didn't want those, but I did want to be able to go as deep into the gadgeteer site as I could.  I set my limit to 3, but I then went to the configuration screen (you can either bring it up manually or tell the plucker wizard to open it right after you create a new file), went to the "limits" field, and in the area for limiting a specific configuration pattern, I pasted in any website address for the category I was working on.  ie: www.the-gadgeteer.com/toys/micromachines.  Obviously I didn't want to tell it to only give me pages that start with this exact address, 'cus only one would come up (the page about micromachines).  So I deleted everything backwards until the / after toys.  Now it knew to get me all links, up to 3 deep, ONLY if they started with www.the-gadgeteer.com/toys/.  So it wouldn't waste time and space grabbing all that third party stuff, or anything else.  The last thing to do in this step is put .* at the beginning and end of that address (don't ask me why, that's what it said in the help file I used to teach me this).  So in this field of the limits page, I end up with: .*www.the-gadgeteer.com/toys/.*   I hope this helps, and that I explained clearly.    Jennifer.       -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Robin Taylor Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 11:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Just getting started Hello. I keep hearing about Plucker, so I downloaded the three files the Plucker site recommends: Viewer, Parser/Distiller and Desktop. Um, where do I go from here? This seems like something I would enjoy having on my PDAs (either my T | C or my Tapwave Zodiac 2), but I need to know what to from here.   Thanks.   Robin T.