Hello wiseones..

I am a newbie to perl and am wrestling with the Image::Grab module. I have got it working fine to grab the images that i want but, I am trying to workout how to use the Date and MD5 options. Having read the info on CPAN, elsewhere and doing a super search here.. I am still none the wiser. Here is my code.. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Image::Grab;

my $image = new Image::Grab;

$image->url('http://www.mysite.com/my.jpg');
$image->grab_new;

[download]

# save image bit here

I can see that i can use $image->date to see the date info for the file, which is in epochtime. Do I compare this with my local time or am i completely barking up the wrong tree?

I would like to run script as a cronjob and only get the image if it has been updated. I have the MD5 module installed.

Any advice would be appreciated, i know i still have alot to learn grasshopper! :o)

Linux MDK9.0::Perl 5.8.0::Image::Grab 1.4

In reply to newbie quest for Image::Grab by lone5ive

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