LWP::Simple is definitely an easy way to go. I am using that in a project to grab news off foreign web sites that don't have RSS set up.

As far as grabbing pictures, I have found that LWP::Simple will get them as it apparently ( and someone please correct me if I'm wrong here ) grabs the entire page, code and graphics.

If you're doing this on a windows machine, those pictures you want may already be in your temporary directories and you might consider trying to get them out of there as another option. I don't know if *nix does the same thing or not but it may be another option to look at.

Btw, how are you deciding which ones to get?

You might also check out the latest issue of 2600 magazine. There was an article on grabbing pictures from websites that have the right click disabled - written in Perl.

Hope that helps!

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In reply to Re: Fetching an Image from HTTP by Popcorn Dave
in thread Fetching an Image from HTTP by Anonymous Monk

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