"I'll give you 10000 contiguous pages from Argos. You tell me the sum of the products" was the jist of the conversation.

Ok honoured Monks. I confess I haven't programmed in perl since the last century and things have moved one. Quills are no longer needed in my editor of choice.

So my thinking has been 

my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $targetURL);
my $res = $ua->request($req);

[download]

to snort the response code, if it's a 200, then

my $website_content = get($targetURL);

and regex the info out of the page I'm after and add it to a file.

Did it, but it's taking about a minute to process 100 pages.

Oh wise ones, point out the errors in my thinking. I'm on a fast connection. Is that the bottle neck? Can I get it going significantly faster?

In reply to Speeding things up by AlwaysSurprised

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