Writing a crawler with WWW::Mechanize
By Andy Lester on September 19, 2008 9:12 AM
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Stefan Petrea has written up a summary of his building of an MP3 website crawler using WWW::Mechanize and an RDBMS. It's a good write-up, and good overview of the issues of crawling beyond the obvious "open a page, get the links, follow the links.".
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- WWW::Mechanize
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