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in reply to Re: Cutting Out Previously Visited Web Pages in A Web Spider
in thread Cutting Out Previously Visited Web Pages in A Web Spider

Thanks kappa and BazB, Would you by any chance know how to use URI::URL to make all links absolute. I believe the syntax in this case would be

url("links from extor")->abs("$url");
But I don't see how to put this in the do loop.

Because CPAN isn't searching, heres the URI link: URI::URL

thanks a bunch

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Re: Re: Cutting Out Previously Visited Web Pages in A Web Spider
by BazB (Priest) on Mar 15, 2004 at 08:55 UTC

    There's no need to use URI::URL. Change the HTML::SimpleLinkExtor code to return absolute instead of relative paths.

    There is a comment in my code in my last reply noting that my code currently returns relative paths and pointing you to the module docs. RTFM :-)


    If the information in this post is inaccurate, or just plain wrong, don't just downvote - please post explaining what's wrong.
    That way everyone learns.

      I have been trying to build in your error checking, as well as tie it into a DBM for when it crashes. Heres what I got:
      #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use warnings; use LWP::RobotUA; use HTML::SimpleLinkExtor; use vars qw/$http_ua $link_extractor/; sub crawl { my @queue = @_; my %visited; my $a = 42464; my $base; dbmopen(%visited, "visited", 0666); while ( my $url = shift @queue ) { next if $visited{$url}; my $response = $http_ua->get($url); if ($response->is_success) { my $content = $response->content open FILE, '>' . ++$a . '.txt'; print FILE "$url\n"; print FILE $content; close FILE; print qq{Downloaded: "$url"\n}; push @queue, do { my $link_extractor = HTML::SimpleLinkExtor->new($u +rl); $link_extractor->parse($content); $link_extractor->a; }; $visited{$url} = 1; } else { dbmclose(%visited); die $response->status_line; } } } $http_ua = new LWP::RobotUA theusefulbot => 'bot@theusefulnet.com'; $http_ua->delay( 10 / 6000 ); crawl(@ARGV);
      This gives me: Can't call method "is_success" without a package or object reference at theusefulbot.pl line 21.

      Any Ideas?

      Thank you