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<font face="Lucida Console">Sounds like potential spam mining to me.
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"Henry Alexander Lee" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:hlee@paybl.com"><hlee@paybl.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">My name is Henry Lee and I'm a student at Stanford. I'm trying to
gather a list of names for an event. I'm wondering if it is possible
to write a perl script that would repeatedly send requests to a site,
input keywords in its search form, gather the results, and output
them to a text/excel file.
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I'll be a little more charitable about your end goals than Randal, this
sounds like a basic data mining problem and I can think of all sorts
of times when extracting information from web sites is useful and
reasonable. WWW::Mechanize is your friend.
A note: Offering equity for problems this simple probably doesn't
excite any competent coders about the potentials of your startup.
Dan
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