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

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 in October 2003. Most programming examples are written in Perl

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...

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Contributors

Many people contributed information for this book, including:

• Jacek Artymiak
• Chris Ball
• Paul Bausch
• Erik Benson
• Adam Bregenzer
• Daniel Biddle
• Sean M. Burke
  Sean M. Burke
  Sean Michael Burke is a Perl programmer with a background in linguistics. He was a columnist for The Perl Journal since 1998 and has written several dozen CPAN modules, as well as the O'Reilly Media books Perl & LWP and RTF Pocket Guide...
  
  
• Simon Cozens
  Simon Cozens
  Simon Cozens is a British Perl programmer, author, blogger and missionary. He is a graduate of Pembroke College, Oxford and All Nations Christian College . He is the author of over 100 modules on CPAN, and several books on Perl programming...
  
  
• Rael Dornfest
  Rael Dornfest
  Rael Dornfest is an American computer programmer and author. He is an engineer at Twitter. He was Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Values of N, creator of "I Want Sandy" and "Stikkit: Little Yellow Notes that Think." Previously, he was Chief Technology Officer at O'Reilly Media. He began...
  
  
• William Eastler
• Scot Fallin
• Ben Hammersley
  Ben Hammersley
  Ben Hammersley is a British internet technologist, journalist, author, broadcaster, and diplomat, currently based in London, England....
  
  
• David Landgren
• Andy Lester
• James Linden
• Niall Kennedy - Alexa to RSS reporting interface written in Java.
• Les Orchard
• Sean B. Palmer
• Ron Pacheco
• Dean Peters
• Richard Rose
• Mads Toftum
• Iain Truskett
• Eric Vitiello

External links

• Sample Hacks
• Book preview