January 12th, 2005
There was a post the other day to Boing Boing concerning the fact that Ken Lay is paying to have links to his defense placed on Google and Yahoo. A friend of mine wrote a brief example of how to automatically click the links using Perl and I thought I could probably do better. Below is my attempt at it - uses a proper User Agent, proper referrers and bounces through multiple, anonymous, proxies to get the job done. Thank goodness for WWW::Mechanize.
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Tags: corp:google, corp:yahoo, humor, perl, scrape, search
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September 6th, 2004
This is a partial mirror of one of my favorite Internet pastimes: lowbrow.com. This mirror of over 15,000 entries was made over the course of a night, until I got in trouble by their ISP. Nonetheless, here's the results - plus with the ability to link to a specific post, something the official one lacks.
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Tags: db, web, humor, perl, mysql, scrape
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September 5th, 2004
This is the script that I wrote to retreive entries from lowbrow.com, one of my favorite Internet pastimes.
The only unmentioned point is that there should be some sort of 'Unique' restriction placed on the database to keep duplicate entries from being entered. The only way to access entries on lowbrow is by randomly retreiving on from the home page - which means lots of duplicates, and it becomes progressively harder to get new entries as you progress.
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Tags: humor, perl, scrape
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February 21st, 2004
A use of threaded HTTP requests to generate an optimal battle fish for an amusing online game. The game claimed that the best 'Battle Fish' was one that had an overall rating of 30, but after several attempts, no 30 was found. So, I whipped up a quick script that pounded the site. Unfortunately, even after tens of thousands of requests, the best that could be found was a 29 (and a few of them, at that). This script is for amusement purposes only, of course.
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Tags: humor, perl, scrape
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March 13th, 2003
This little utility generates a random bingo game based upon commonly used phrases in the class 'Professional Communications'. Mark off a square every time one of the phrases and/or actions occurs.
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Tags: web, humor, perl
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