Hey, I'm sorry--I'm a super-nube. I'm trying to write a scraper for some data I'd like to include in my dataset for an economics project. To do this I need to change my IP address every once in a while (which I'm not really so sure how to do). So far, when I run the code it reports "Can't locate Net/IP.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:/Perl64/site/lib C:/Perl64/lib.) at...

The following is my code.

##########################################################
#use WWW::Mechanize; #CRAIGS
use LWP::Simple; #use this until "mechanize" works properly
use Net::IP;
print "Can you see this";
#$dir = "J:\Halibalu"; #put your directory here
$dir = "C:\\workspaceP";
$out = "$dir\\output.csv";
$site = "http://zipinfo.com/cgi-local/zipsrch.exe?cnty=cnty&ll=ll&zip=
+"; #put your web site here
$zip_in = "$dir\\zip.csv";

#my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(); #CRAIGS
#$mech->agent( 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_4; en-u
+s) AppleWebKit/533.17.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.1 Safari/533.
+17.8' ); #CRAIGS

open OUT, ">$out";
close OUT;
open IN, "<$zip_in";


my $a = 10;
my $b = 0;
my $c = 0;
my $d = 0; 
$ip = new Net::IP ('$a.$b.$c.$d');
my $count = 1;
foreach $Z (<IN>) {
    if ($count<30) {
    chomp($Z); #MINE
    print "$Z\n";
    #$mech->get($site); #CRAIGS
    
    my $page = get("$site${Z}&Go=Go");
    #if($dist = $mech->submit_form(form_number=>1, fields=>{'field nam
+e'=>$Z})) #search for the forms and figure out which one you need, th
+en find the names of the fields
    if ($page =~ /Longitude<BR>(.*?)<\/font><\/td><\/tr><\/table>/s) 
    {
        my $info = $1;
        
        
        $info =~ s/<td align=center>/,\s/g;
        $info =~ s/(West)//g;
        $info =~ s/<.*?>//g;
        print "${info}\n";
        #if ($dist->decoded_content() =~ /find information here/s) { 
        open OUT, ">>$out";
            #print OUT "$Z, $1\n";
        print OUT "$info\n"; #MINE
        close OUT;
        #}
    }
    
    $count++;
    
    else {
        #sleep(60*60*24); #sleep timer
        $count=1;
        if ($d<255){
            $d++;
        }
        else{
        $d=1;
        $c++;
        }
        $ip = new Net::IP ('$a.$b.$c.$d');
    }
}

#Take everything in between "Longitude<BR>" and "</font></td></tr></ta
+ble>" (these are verified unique)
#make each "<td align=center>" into a comma (",")
#Scrap "(West)", "</th>", "</tr>", "<tr>", "</font>"
#########################################################

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I'd be really grateful to anyone who can lend their insight here.

~Andrew

In reply to Rotating IP Addresses for Scraping by jandrewc

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