eensyweensy

a poor man's webspider
git clone https://wehaveforgeathome.hates.computer/eensyweensy.git
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commit e2a43e9eb11a4d9001468c34ab10d5f2065bb312
parent d7f5ca545fe16688dcdb72ff16d201bf1abf6cf0
Author: Ryan Wolf <rwolf@borderstylo.com>
Date:   Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:34:23 -0700

rm'd superfluous "in Firefox," added naming rationale.
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1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md @@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ Eensy Weensy Eensy Weensy is an example webspider. It's designed to scrape urls of blog posts from [http://borderstylo.com](http://borderstylo.com) and output them to a text file. The example is silly, but along with a forthcoming blog post, this should be enough to get you started writing your own Poor Man's webspider. +Naming +----- + +The Eensy Weensy Spider is the protagonist of a children's song (see wiki's [Eensy Weensy Spider](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eensy_Weensy_Spider) for more details). I feel its' smallness, fragility and resilience are qualities which are also found in this webcrawler (riiight). + Prerequisites ----- @@ -16,7 +21,7 @@ Usage * Save this project wherever your PHP scripts like to be kept (/var/www for example) * Edit spider.home in eensyweensy.user.js to point to eensyweensy.php * Open eensyweensy.user.js in Firefox, then click "Install" -* Open [http://borderstylo.com/posts](http://borderstylo.com/posts) in Firefox +* Open [http://borderstylo.com/posts](http://borderstylo.com/posts) TODO: once eensyweensy.php is written, include sample output here