Archive for the 'Perl' Category
Wordpress Auto-Installer
I’ve written a Wordpress auto-installer that takes all of the labour out of setting up a new Wordpress v2.3.3 installation if you’re running cPanel 10 on a Linux server. All you have to do is:
Install the required Perl modules (see below)
Place the folder ‘wordpress’ in the same folder as the script
Run the script via the [...]
Fetching all ‘From’ email addresses from an IMAP email account
If you want to back-up certain elements of your email account, this is not always very easy to do. For example you may not use your address book much (or never), but want to keep a backup of all of the email addresses that have sent messages to you.
Thanks to Mail::IMAPClient, this is pretty easy [...]
Scraping through Tor
If, for whatever reason, you want to scrape a website through a proxy, this is pretty easy in Perl, using WWW::Mechanize and Vidalia / Tor:
Read More..>>Fun with Perl & search logs
A while ago AOL released a large amount of anonymised search data from its users. This consisted of over 4 GB of data.
Now that’s a hell of a lot of search queries to be looking through manually. However, thanks to some Perl & Excel trickery, it’s possible to get some useful info from all this. [...]