You most certainly can use PHP to do this. And if i'm not wrong I think there are allready scripts which do this (which wouldn't be too hard to hack up for yourself)
Check out hotscripts.com Andrew ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Govostes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PHP People" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 8:42 PM Subject: [PHP] web spider? i was wondering if it would be possible to make a web spider in PHP. they work by download a website, then following all the links on the website to other pages, and then following the links on that page... is this possible in PHP without a whole lot of work? i just want to keep a counter of how many links (not e-mail addresses or file downloads) it finds. if someone has the time, could you write up a quick recursive script that i could use as a basis of my project? thanks ~toaster© -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
