shpider: Web automation library in Haskell.

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Shpider is a web automation library for Haskell. It allows you to quickly write crawlers, and for simple cases ( like following links ) even without reading the page source.

It has useful features such as turning relative links from a page into absolute links, options to authorize transactions only on a given domain, and the option to only download html documents.

It also provides a nice syntax for filling out forms.

An example:

runShpider $ do
     download "http://apage.com"
     theForm : _ <- getFormsByAction "http://anotherpage.com"
     sendForm $ fillOutForm theForm $ pairs $ do
           "occupation" =: "unemployed Haskell programmer"
           "location" =: "mother's house"

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Versions [RSS] 0.0.1, 0.0.2, 0.0.3, 0.0.4, 0.0.5, 0.0.6, 0.0.7, 0.1.0, 0.1.1, 0.2, 0.2.1.1
Dependencies base (<5), bytestring, containers, curl, mtl, regex-posix, tagsoup, tagsoup-parsec, url (>=2), web-encodings [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Author Johnny Morrice <spoon@killersmurf.com>, Ozgun Ataman
Maintainer Ozgun Ataman <ozataman@gmail.com>
Category Web
Home page http://github.com/ozataman/shpider
Uploaded by OzgunAtaman at 2011-07-23T22:19:27Z
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