>>>>> "Albert" == Albert Spohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Albert> Howdy - I'm a newcoming to the LWP modules and I've gotten to the
Albert> point of successfully isolating links on a given page. My ultimate
Albert> goal is to visit each link recursively, and although it wouldn't be a
Albert> huge deal to put what I already have in a loop to do so, I thought I'd
Albert> double check that there wasn't already a module/method out there that
Albert> would implement this kind of thing recursively for me. As an FYI, my
Albert> current scheme is just a minor elaboration of the technique using
Albert> HTML::LinkExtor and LWP::Simple shown on page 719 of the Perl Cookbook.
[aside: I wonder how many times people will reinvent the spider. maybe
this is one of those tasks like text templater that everyone always
thinks has not been done so they must do it themselves.]
Anyway, besides all my column versions (at
<http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/> and nearby) there's
also the WWW::Robot in the CPAN (which I've used for a column or two)
and I now see WWW::SimpleRobot (which I've not even installed yet).
Please, please PLEASE do not write your own robot/spider. We've got
enough of those!
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