in reply to Re^4: Creating a web crawler (theory)
in thread Creating a web crawler (theory)

But then you have to write and debug a Perl script :)

(Have it treat programmatically constructed paths etc.)

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Re^6: Creating a web crawler (theory)
by brian_d_foy (Abbot) on Jan 29, 2005 at 18:06 UTC

    Programmatically constructed paths? You mean like templates? In that case, you shouldn't have much re-typing to do at all.

    It's a pretty simple script to rewrite URLs. It's even one of the class exercises in one of the Stonehenge courses. :)

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    brian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org>