WWW::SimpleRobot ================ Description ----------- A simple perl module for doing robot stuff. For a more elaborate interface, see WWW::Robot. This version uses LWP::Simple to grab pages, and HTML::LinkExtor to extract the links from them. Only href attributes of anchor tags are extracted. Extracted links are checked against the FOLLOW_REGEX regex to see if they should be followed. A HEAD request is made to these links, to check that they are 'text/html' type pages. Prerequisites ------------- This module requires the following perl modules: URI LWP::Simple HTML::LinkExtor Installation ------------ The usual ... > perl Makefile.PL > make [ > make test ] > make install Copyright --------- Copyright (c) 2001 Ave Wrigley. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Author ------ Ave Wrigley