Thanks for the concerns and information. This will not in any way be used for solicitation or spamming. This is only for cross referencing and research purposes. -Henry<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Walt Sanders</b> <<a href="mailto:wsanders@cruzio.com">wsanders@cruzio.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Walt.<br>
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<pre>On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:52:45 -0700<br>"Henry Alexander Lee" <a href="mailto:hlee@paybl.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><hlee@paybl.com></a> wrote:<br> </pre>
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<pre>My name is Henry Lee and I'm a student at Stanford. I'm trying to<br>gather a list of names for an event. I'm wondering if it is possible<br>to write a perl script that would repeatedly send requests to a site,
<br>input keywords in its search form, gather the results, and output<br>them to a text/excel file.<br> </pre>
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<pre>I'll be a little more charitable about your end goals than Randal, this<br>sounds like a basic data mining problem and I can think of all sorts<br>of times when extracting information from web sites is useful and
<br>reasonable. WWW::Mechanize is your friend.<br><br>A note: Offering equity for problems this simple probably doesn't<br>excite any competent coders about the potentials of your startup.<br><br>Dan<br>_______________________________________________
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