[MacPerl] LWP, Robots, UA's and setting up a search script

[James Wallace <mainer@ix.netcom.com>]

I get a little web-site for cs dept professors, students and staff who
are teaching, learning and utilizing Java.  I'm running it off of WebTen
and a G3.  I spent most of the Fall putting together a global cs dept
homepage & contact page index.  [This is before I realized that there
was an easier way - perl's LWP Robot/UA capabilities.  I want to do the
same thing for US cs departments, and ultimately maintain all these
links via perl.

I know that macPerl is the tool to use.  I also know that the LWP Robot
script is what I should probably start with.  I imagine that I should
utilize some sort of "header" and ".edu" search subroutine, since many
university/college web pages do not have meta-tags within them.

Have any of you set up a similar program?  I've looked around, but I
haven't found any reference materials that address just the LWP Robot,
UA.  Would any of you have any pointers or reference materials that I
might look at.....Or even a program that you've written that I can
modify?

Jim Wallace
http://www.jcampus.org
jwallace@jcampus.org


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