Automate Web Page Searching

Paul Ward pnward at googlemail.com
Mon Aug 6 07:30:30 UTC 2007


Cheers Matthew, that seems good for the job.



On 06/08/07, Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
> Paul Ward wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Not sure if there is such a thing but, does anyone know a way of
> > searching php web content automaticly using software.
> >
> > e.g going to facebook, loggin in and if a posting on my page by a
> > friend has happened go to the link and load up the full article if a
> > link is contained in this text then go to the link etc.
> >
> > I have never heard of such a tool, lynx is not capable is there another way?
>
> You might have luck with Perl.  I've heard WWW::Mechanize
> (http://search.cpan.org/~petdance/WWW-Mechanize-1.30/lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm)
> is good for this type of thing.
>
> Matt Flaschen
>
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