EGroup Parser

DVS VR4 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Does anyone have got for parsing out egroups? I'm looking into writing a program that will download all of the archives of any egroup into a bunch of text files. I didn't want to start on something that someone was already working on. I've searched the site and google and really didn't see anything that would do the job. Anyone?

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Re: EGroup Parser by tadman (Prior) on May 15, 2002 at 17:13 UTC
If you mean this system, then you are probably going to have to do something else first, namely, get logged in with a workable cookie. I was interested in doing this, but never bothered to write a Yahoo::Login-type module. You'd have to reimplement the scrambling JavaScript for their login that they use to keep out the script kiddies.	[reply]
Re: EGroup Parser by adamcrussell (Hermit) on May 15, 2002 at 19:20 UTC
I haven't looked much into groups.yahoo.com but my Yahoo Clubs message board script may be of interest as far as working with Yahoo's cookie and redirection schemes. Look at Post To Yahoo Club MessageBoards .	[reply]
Re: EGroup Parser by DVS VR4 (Initiate) on May 16, 2002 at 14:51 UTC
Blah! Why do the simple ideas always get so complicated. @_@ I would have thought someone would have done this by now. I'll take a look at that yahoo message board script. Thanks!	[reply]