There is nothing written about webreaper in perlmonks. There are no reviews for it in CPAN.

Well, with your post there's at least something written on perlmonks, even if it's just a complaint that there isn't anything pre-digested for you to grab.

The package was released on the 25 Sep 2004. Does this mean that nobody has used it except the guy that wrote it?

"the guy" that wrote it is our most honorable brian_d_foy, so I guess at least merlyn has used it, too.

Please come forward if you have. Does it do what it says on the tin?

I won't step forward. You first.

Why don't you just try the package and post a review of it here and maybe on CPAN as well? That would give us the pleasure to upvote a node of yours, for a change.

The link is : http://search.cpan.org/~bdfoy/webreaper-0.31/

You are on perlmonks since 04.11.2003 18:06:47, and you still haven't learned the basics of PerlMonks posting, courtesy and linking? Did you ever read What shortcuts can I use for linking to other information?

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No one uses webreaper aside from me, as far as I know. Someone mentioned that Randal might use it, but I bet he doesn't even know I wrote that, and I also bet he either wrote his own or uses wget. You probably want to use wget too.

As far as I know, webreaper does what the documentation claims it does. It's something I wrote and that I find incredibly useful. When that happens, I make the code available to other people under an open source license. If you'd like to use it, give it a whirl. If you want to steal some of its code, it's open source. If you don't like it, that's fine too.

webreaper is just a script, which is why PAUSE doesn't index it and you can't install it from CPAN.pm. As others have noted, you can just download it yourself, or even browse it on search.cpan.org.

What were you interested in doing with webreaper? I should probably make another release with some local changes I've made recently. Good luck. :)

Update The Anonymonk points to the CPAN script section, but that's what you do if you don't want anyone to ever find your script, test it, or install it with the common tools. I purposedly ignored it because there are much better ways to distribute scripts.

*nudge* http://cpan.org/scripts/submitting.html