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Re: cURL starting questions

From: Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle <mailinglists_at_mailnewsrss.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:41:48 -0700

Hi Ralph,

> I have some starting cURL questions that I am hoping to gain insight
> about.
>
> I want to start at Dmoz.org and follow links for entertainment (like
> concerts, art gallery events, etc) and examine the link to see if I
> should get data back about it and from it.

> You should probably start here:
>
> http://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.html
>
> Curl will only grab a web page for you, it won't attempt to
> interpret the page. It won't even download images or script files
> unless you extract the relevant urls from any given page and perform
> subsequent fetches.

So what tool does one use to evaluate the links, etc? How can I make
decisions and such?

-Jason

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Received on 2009-04-19