spiders - newbie

Can anyone tell me where I can get tutorials on how to write spiderbots? I
don't know any perl, but a little bit of VB.NET and PHP. I tried searching
Google but didn't find much.

Thanks.

Re: spiders - newbie

"Josh" wrote in message
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> Can anyone tell me where I can get tutorials on how to write spiderbots?
> I
> don't know any perl, but a little bit of VB.NET and PHP. I tried
> searching
> Google but didn't find much.
>

Be sure and read the whole article if you have no background in the
language:

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/08/20/perlandlwp.html?page=4

And for more information on using the LWP module, try the cookbook:

http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/lib/lwpcook.html

Matt

Re: spiders - newbie

Josh wrote:

> Can anyone tell me where I can get tutorials on how to write spiderbots?
> I
> don't know any perl, but a little bit of VB.NET and PHP. I tried
> searching Google but didn't find much.
>
> Thanks.

Perl & LWP
Fetching Web pages, Parsing HTML Writing Spiders and More.
Sean M. Burke

(LWP means Library for WWW in Perl.)

O'Reilly Books.

Try www.bookpool.com

Spidering Hacks
100 Industrial Strength tips and tools.
Kevin Hemensway and Tara Calishain

O'Reilly books.

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