Dunno if I'm re-inventing the wheel, because it was easier to write the
scripts than search the web for one.
#1 scrapes the latest posts from 2 Google Groups (rec.music.dylan &
rec.music.folk). Pretty much any newsgroup could be configured VERY
easily, but I don't have that kind of server space & bandwidth!
You can see an the newsgroup scraper in action at:
http://dylanfreak.djeaux.com
#2 scrapes listings from specific eBay for any category. I've set up
four at http://dylanfreak.djeaux.com/classified.shtml
Dunno if either of them is "legal", but I'm planning to use the eBay
with my affiliate ID kludged into the links ;-)
Like I said, I dunno if these reinvented the wheel & I'm pretty sure
there ain't a CPAN Perl module for parsing an eBay listing!
The RSS's are at:
http://www.djeaux.com/rss/
In both cases, the Perl scripts can be very easily modified to do
pretty much any query of either of those sites. I'm willing to give the
scripts (source) to anybody who (a) promises to use them & (b) promises
not to make snide comments about my coding style :-)
Oh, whatever... I enjoyed your website. Informative.
Joe
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