[Discuss] What's the best site-crawler utility?

[Richard Pieri]

Daniel Barrett wrote:
> Well, a script doesn't need human-readability. :-) Trust me, this is
> not hard. I did it a few years ago with minimal difficulty (using a
> couple of Emacs macros, if memory serves).

If you recall, the decision is that a novice has volunteered to take 
over as a way to learn HTML and related. It doesn't matter how easy you 
think it is. What matters is that this novice is handed something 
usable. Database dumps and web scrapes typically are anything but that.

-- 
Rich P.