Perl Spiders

Christopher Penrose (penrose@grasshopper.ucsd.edu)
Thu, 8 Feb 96 08:43:59 -0800


There is a good book on the subject, with perl source code:

Internet Agents: Spiders, Wanderers, Brokers, and Bots
by Fah-Chun Cheong
New Riders

The WebWalker perl source can be found at:
http://deluge.stanford.:8000/book/WebWalker

it requires the libwww-perl:
http://www.ics.uci.edu/WebSoft/libwww-perl/

I'd give you my spider, NetNose, which I wrote mostly before I had
this book, but it is not as well organized and complete at the http
protocol level.

Christopher Penrose
penrose@ucsd.edu
http://www-crca.ucsd.edu/TajMahal/after.html