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All,
I have found some of the most interesting links, both internal and external, from visiting homenodes. The problem is that by visiting random homenodes, you are extremely likely to end up on one with little to no content.

I asked around in the CB as well as Super Searched, but didn't find anything that did exactly what I wanted. The closest was Random NonHome Nodes by blakem, which contrary to the title would allow you to surf to random homenodes with a minimun XP. The trouble is it is b0rk ATM (at least for me). Even if it were working, having XP makes no guarantee a monk has put something on their homenode. In the CB, atcroft mentioned parsing the PM Stats.

Here was my criteria for including a homenode:

Homenode length > 500 and XP > 200
Homenode length > 500 and account created > 1 yr and last here < 45 days

The Monastery

^th

Here is the code

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::TableContentParser;
use Time::Local;
use WWW::Mechanize;

use constant ID     =>  1;
use constant CREATE =>  3;
use constant STATS  =>  4;
use constant LAST   =>  4;
use constant EXP    =>  5;
use constant LENGTH => 11;

# length && ( rep || create && last )
my %opt = (
    length => 500,
    exp    => 200,
    create => 365,
    last   => 45,
    url    => 'http://tinymicros.com/pm/index.php?goto=monkstats&sorto
+pt=15&sortlist=15,1,3&',
    pos    => 0,
);

my $finished;
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new( autocheck => 1 );

my @homenodes;

while ( ! $finished ) {
    $mech->get( $opt{url} . '&start=' . $opt{pos} );

    my $table = HTML::TableContentParser->new()->parse( $mech->content
+() );
    for my $row ( @{ $table->[ STATS ]{rows} } ) {

        my $length = Get_Length( $row );
        next if ! defined $length;
        if ( $length < $opt{length} ) {
            $finished = 1;
            last;
        }

        my $id = Get_ID( $row );
        push @homenodes , $id if defined $id;
    }
    $opt{pos} += 50;
}

sub Get_Length {
    my $row  = shift;
    my $data = ${ $row->{cells} }[ LENGTH ]{data};
    ($data)  = $data =~ /(\d+)/ if defined $data;
    return $data;
}

sub Get_ID {
    my $row    = shift;
    my ($id)   = ${ $row->{cells} }[ ID  ]{data} =~ /(\d+)/;
    my ($exp)  = ${ $row->{cells} }[ EXP ]{data} =~ /(\d+)/;
    return $id if $exp >= $opt{exp};

    my $create = Get_Days( ${ $row->{cells} }[ CREATE ]{data} );
    my $last   = Get_Days( ${ $row->{cells} }[ LAST   ]{data} );
    return $create >= $opt{create} && $last <= $opt{last} ? $id : unde
+f;
}

sub Get_Days {
    my $then  = shift;
    ($then)   = $then =~ m|<NOBR>(.*)</NOBR>|;
    my ($yr, $mon, $day, $hr, $min, $sec) = split /[ :-]/ , $then;

    my $stamp = timelocal ($sec, $min, $hr, $day, --$mon, $yr);
    return int ( (time - $stamp) / 86_400 );
}

print "<ul>\n";
print "<li>[id://$_]</li>\n" for @homenodes;
print "</ul>\n";
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As of this posting, there were 871 homenodes that fit this criteria. The list may be on my scratch pad depending on how long it takes me to get through them all.

Cheers - L~R

In reply to Homenode Surfing by Limbic~Region

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