Re: Webreaper - is it any good?

[brian_d_foy]

No one uses webreaper aside from me, as far as I know. Someone mentioned that Randal might use it, but I bet he doesn't even know I wrote that, and I also bet he either wrote his own or uses wget. You probably want to use wget too.

As far as I know, webreaper does what the documentation claims it does. It's something I wrote and that I find incredibly useful. When that happens, I make the code available to other people under an open source license. If you'd like to use it, give it a whirl. If you want to steal some of its code, it's open source. If you don't like it, that's fine too.

webreaper is just a script, which is why PAUSE doesn't index it and you can't install it from CPAN.pm. As others have noted, you can just download it yourself, or even browse it on search.cpan.org.

What were you interested in doing with webreaper? I should probably make another release with some local changes I've made recently. Good luck. :)

Update The Anonymonk points to the CPAN script section, but that's what you do if you don't want anyone to ever find your script, test it, or install it with the common tools. I purposedly ignored it because there are much better ways to distribute scripts.

[Anonymous Monk]

*nudge* http://cpan.org/scripts/submitting.html