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Re: Yet Another Scraping Question

by izut (Chaplain)
on Apr 18, 2006 at 09:20 UTC ( [id://544020]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Yet Another Scraping Question

Have you inspected the contents of the loaded page? You can perform a md5sum on its contents, if it is the same of the last viewed page, you're done.

Igor 'izut' Sutton
your code, your rules.

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Re^2: Yet Another Scraping Question
by Cody Pendant (Prior) on Apr 19, 2006 at 05:15 UTC
    Nice idea, but it would fail if I happened to have two different timestamps, wouldn't it?

    I could however do the checksum on the HTML table which forms the bulk of the page instead of the whole page.


    ($_='kkvvttuu bbooppuuiiffss qqffssmm iibbddllffss')
    =~y~b-v~a-z~s; print
[reply]

      That's right. I think performing a checksum at HTML table would be enough.

      Igor 'izut' Sutton
      your code, your rules.

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