:Yahoo Search Script Fixed - Looking Backward At My Linux And Unix Mistakes
Yahoo Search Script Fixed - Looking Backward At My Linux And Unix Mistakes Jan 5, 2009, 00 :03 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (4274 reads) (Other stories by Mike Tremell)
"It turns out, the main SNAFU (situation normal, all f***ed up) was that I didn't include a --user-agent option to my wget command... ooops.
"Check out the test run pictures below, to see what a difference it makes, and feel free to laugh "with" or "at" me for the bone-headed mistake. I'm immune to feeling any worse right now ;)
"For the newer pictures, I added a line to the "searchterms" file to make sure I could get a result from the last search after the few preceding it failed. Also, for this test, like the last, I modified the script slightly to only go after the first 200 results, rather than the default maximum of 1000 that Yahoo will return per search. As the newer pictures demonstrate, you don't need to go after the full 1000 like we did last time in order to get bounced."
