Archive for the 'Perl' Category

Wordpress Auto-Installer

Posted by rob on February 20th, 2008 filed in Perl, Wordpress

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 [...]

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Fetching all ‘From’ email addresses from an IMAP email account

Posted by rob on February 12th, 2008 filed in Perl

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 [...]

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Scraping through Tor

Posted by rob on February 6th, 2008 filed in Perl

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:

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Fun with Perl & search logs

Posted by rob on December 2nd, 2006 filed in Perl

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. [...]

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