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Re: Searching bol.com
by Hero Zzyzzx (Curate) on Jan 12, 2002 at 21:02 UTC

    You write a script that POSTs information to the site, and that parses the HTML returned, of course.

    Look into LWP::UserAgent and the various HTML parsing modules- my personal favorite is HTML::TokeParser.

    No one is going to write it for you for free here. I suggest you look at lwpcook, on your local perl 5.6.1 system, or here. lwpcook is an excellent overview of how to accomplish specific things with various LWP modules.

    crazyinsomniac has a great HTML::TokeParser tutorial here.

    -Any sufficiently advanced technology is
    indistinguishable from doubletalk.

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Re: Searching bol.com
by n3dst4 (Scribe) on Jan 12, 2002 at 23:13 UTC
    Use A Web Browser.

    On the other hand I can stop being a jerk and give you a practical example: once youve downloaded LWP (as linked above), download WWW-Search-AltaVista (or any of the WWW-Search modules and see how they did it.

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