Monks,
 The following code is something I put together today mainly for use on my website. It scrapes the bugtraq section off security-focus.com. Keeps you from having to subscribe to the mailing list. Let me know what you think.
Later, 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
##
#
# parses bugtraq off security-focus.com.
# mainly for dynamic website use.
#
# dusty hall
#
##

use strict;
use URI::URL;
use LWP::Simple; 
use HTML::Parse;
use HTML::TableExtract;

open(OUT,">security-focus.html");

my $bugtraq = "http://www.security-focus.com/archive/1"; 
my $html = get $bugtraq;
my ($extract,$state,$row);

$extract = new HTML::TableExtract( headers => [qw(Date Subject Author)
+], keep_html => 1 );
$extract->parse($html);

foreach $state ($extract->table_states) {
 foreach $row ($state->rows) {

  my $parsed_html = HTML::Parse::parse_html($row->[1]);
  my @wanted = ('a');

  for (@{$parsed_html->extract_links(@wanted) }) {
   my $link =$_->[0];
   my $description = $_->[1];
   $description = $description->content->[0];
   if (! defined $description) { $description='' }

   my $url = new URI::URL $link;
   my $full_url = $url->abs($bugtraq);
   
   $description =~ tr/A-Z/a-z/;
   print OUT "<font size=2 face=verdana>$row->[0] <a target=_blank hre
+f=$full_url>$description</a></font><br>";
  }

 }
}

close(OUT);

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--JD

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