Automate Web Page Searching

[Matthew Flaschen]

Paul Ward wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Not sure if there is such a thing but, does anyone know a way of
> searching php web content automaticly using software.
> 
> e.g going to facebook, loggin in and if a posting on my page by a
> friend has happened go to the link and load up the full article if a
> link is contained in this text then go to the link etc.
> 
> I have never heard of such a tool, lynx is not capable is there another way?

You might have luck with Perl.  I've heard WWW::Mechanize 
(http://search.cpan.org/~petdance/WWW-Mechanize-1.30/lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm) 
is good for this type of thing.

Matt Flaschen