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Has anyone written a web crawler in newLISP?

I have looked, but cannot find such a beast.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

I'd start looking here...

kanen wrote:Has anyone written a web crawler in newLISP?

I have written later in 2009 some kind of crawler to gather information from one big goverment site.

Pretty simple thing, just several hundreds lines of code, "cgi.lsp" + regular expressions + lots of cookie romp. If you are going to make crawler without cookie, I think, simple crawler can be developed in one evening.

I had forgotten, after using Ruby and Python (and, of course, C) for a few years, just how fetching awesome newLISP is.

I did indeed write the simple crawler in one evening and it turns out to be quite fast.

Fritz wrote:

kanen wrote:Has anyone written a web crawler in newLISP?

I have written later in 2009 some kind of crawler to gather information from one big goverment site.

Pretty simple thing, just several hundreds lines of code, "cgi.lsp" + regular expressions + lots of cookie romp. If you are going to make crawler without cookie, I think, simple crawler can be developed in one evening.

Hi Kanen

I wrote some simple tools for analysing websites in newLISP and used CURL for fetching urls, because (get-url) doesn't support "https". You can simple invoke CURL by the exec function.

Then using SXML for parsing the returned HTML would be the easiest.

Cheers
Hilti