Spidering Hacks

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Spidering Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Tools is a book of tips about spidering software, software which traverses data on the internet cataloging the information it finds. The book was written by Kevin Hemenway and Tara Calishain (ISBN 0-596-05777-6). The book was published by O'Reilly in October 2003. Most programming examples are written in Perl. Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular amongst programmers. Larry Wall continues to oversee development of the core language, and its upcoming version, Perl 6.