fatbrain.pl

[ergowolf]

Category:

web search

Description:

This program checks for books from fatbrain, but it can be easily be modified to search any site's page.

use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $VERSION = 1.0;
my %pages = (
                'Firewall 1' => 'http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo
+/bookinfo.asp?theisbn=007134229x',
                'Bay Network Router Configuration' => 'http://www1.fat
+brain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.asp?theisbn=0070284857',
                'Mastering Algorthims with Perl' => 'http://www1.fatbr
+ain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.asp?theisbn=1565923987',
                );

foreach (keys %pages) {
my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
my $req = new HTTP::Request GET => $pages{$_};
my $string = $ua->request($req)->as_string;
    if ($string =~ m/Not yet published/g) {
    print "$_ is not out yet.\n";
    } else {
    print "$_ has been published.";
    }
}

=head1 NAME

fatbrain - This script takes a list of books and looks to see if they 
+are considered published on fatbrain.

=head1 DESCRIPTION

I am always waiting for books to be published and I am sick of doing a
+ll the work in looking them up.  
I created this script to check if the books I am looking for are publi
+shed.

=head1 README

=head1 PREREQUISITES

This script has a few requirements.  You will need LWP and you will ne
+ed to look up the book the first time
yourself.  Once you have the url cut and paste it into the value field
+  in %pages and put in a description in the key
of the hash.

=head1 COREQUISITES

None

=pod SCRIPT CATEGORIES

Web

=cut

[damian1301]

Im very very ashamed, I have just found the same code on http://planet-source-code.com and I don't think that ergowolf copied anything -- Because his posts were here 3 months before theirs. For those who want the URL, here it is...
Here.

Wanna be perl hacker.
Dave AKA damian