I just wrote a script for someone using LWP to do a search of a web site and extract some data. He wants to take an existing file of bibliographic data, and get an additional piece of data on each article from this web site. His example file had only about 100 articles I needed to search for. I don't know how many his real file will have.

This seems very similar to Anonymous Monk's script insofar as it's repeatedly accessing a site. Does etiquette dictate my script sleep also, or are these different animals?

And if I should, isn't 2 seconds a little long? I would think the server could process a lot of requests in that time.

TheEnigma

In reply to Re^2: Use WWW::Mechanize to Download Pictures of Sayuri Anzu by TheEnigma
in thread Use WWW::Mechanize to Download Pictures of Sayuri Anzu by Anonymous Monk

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