Thanks a lot! How did you do that?

I was thinking of using WWW::Mechanize to screen scrape the contents of all obfu nodes for later detailed analysis on my local PC. Or is there a better way? Being inexperienced, I welcome any pointers to nice example code that screen scrapes (or uses XML Generators/Web Services) on the PerlMonks web site.

I used the node lister (cause I can), with

my $data = join '', <DATA>;
print "<li>[id://$_]"
for $data =~ m{\Q<td style = "text-align: right">\E\s+(\d+)\s+\Q</td>\
+E}g;
__DATA__
# raw shizzle from "node lister" here
[download]

You can just use super search.

There is still http://tinymicros.com/ptav/ and http://perlmonks.thepen.com, so if you feel like crawling, that's where i'd start. In fact, I'd look to improve ptav (ask jcwren about it).

That's as much as I can divulge. Hmm, it's been about two years since I mirrored perlmonks.thepen.com, hmmm :)

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