This program checks for books from fatbrain, but it can be easily
be modified to search any site's page.
use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;
my $VERSION = 1.0;
my %pages = (
'Firewall 1' => 'http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo
+/bookinfo.asp?theisbn=007134229x',
'Bay Network Router Configuration' => 'http://www1.fat
+brain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.asp?theisbn=0070284857',
'Mastering Algorthims with Perl' => 'http://www1.fatbr
+ain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.asp?theisbn=1565923987',
);
foreach (keys %pages) {
my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
my $req = new HTTP::Request GET => $pages{$_};
my $string = $ua->request($req)->as_string;
if ($string =~ m/Not yet published/g) {
print "$_ is not out yet.\n";
} else {
print "$_ has been published.";
}
}
=head1 NAME
fatbrain - This script takes a list of books and looks to see if they
+are considered published on fatbrain.
=head1 DESCRIPTION
I am always waiting for books to be published and I am sick of doing a
+ll the work in looking them up.
I created this script to check if the books I am looking for are publi
+shed.
=head1 README
=head1 PREREQUISITES
This script has a few requirements. You will need LWP and you will ne
+ed to look up the book the first time
yourself. Once you have the url cut and paste it into the value field
+ in %pages and put in a description in the key
of the hash.
=head1 COREQUISITES
None
=pod SCRIPT CATEGORIES
Web
=cut
Im very very ashamed, I have just found the same code on http://planet-source-code.com and I don't think that ergowolf copied anything -- Because his posts were here 3 months before theirs. For those who want the URL, here it is... Here.