Hi,

I'm using LWP::Simple to download pages from this site. Since I'm downloading 40,000 pages I'd like to know if there is any way to speed up the process since at the moment it's very slow. The code I'm using is:

#! c:\perl\bin

use WWW::Search; 

$query = "prostate cancer";
$search = new WWW::Search('PubMed'); 
$search->native_query(WWW::Search::escape_query($query)); 
$search->maximum_to_retrieve(40000);
while (my $result = $search->next_result()) {
    }

[download]

With the command:

query.pl>pc_query.txt

(I'm hoping the direct dump into a text file slightly speeds things up)

Does anyone have any ideas about how to speed this process up?

In reply to speed up download for LWP::Simple by dannoura

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