Re: perl script to crawl the web

2007-08-27 Thread yaron
M (GMT+0200) Auto-Detected Subject: perl script to crawl the web Hi Gurus, I need to write a perl script for a web spider that will crawl the web looking for specific file(s) that I specify (such as .mp3) and store the URL's into a mysql database. This needs to work on a linux server. I will als

Re: perl script to crawl the web

2007-08-27 Thread Jeff Pang
If you don't need to login the site to catch files,I think you just need LWP family.see perldoc lwpcook. If the site require login for some authentication,you may need WWW::Mechanize. I doubt there are also some modules on CPAN for this purpose. 2007/8/27, perl pra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Guru

perl script to crawl the web

2007-08-27 Thread perl pra
Hi Gurus, I need to write a perl script for a web spider that will crawl the web looking for specific file(s) that I specify (such as .mp3) and store the URL's into a mysql database. This needs to work on a linux server. I will also require a skip list that will skip certain sites that I input in