in reply to Re^2: automated search using perl
in thread automated search using perl

Google (or any server) can detect the client from 'user-agent' header. Default value for LWP::UserAgent is 'libwww-perl/#.##'(refer LWP::UserAgent) It can be changed by setting agent attribute to any valid user-agent string. Here is one example:
my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent; $ua->agent('Mozilla/5.0'); #$ua->agent('Checkbot/0.4 '); #$ua->agent('Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1'); #$ua->agent('FireFox 2'); my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url); my $res = $ua->request($req); if ($res->is_success) { print $res->content; # or whatever } else { die $res->status_line; }
Regards,
Ashish