KEVIN HEMENWAY

Like the animal it's named for, Mac OS X Panther isbeautiful, sleek, superbly efficient, dangerously alluring, and all muscle under the surface. Beneath its appealing interface, it's a hard-working machine. Those coming to Mac OS X from previous incarnations of the operating system recognize much of the friendly face of the Macintosh they're use...

With this crash course in spidering concepts, tools (Perl, LWP, out-of-the-box utilities), and ethics (how to know when one has gone too far: what's acceptable and unacceptable), readers learn how to collect media files and data from databases; how to interpret and understand the data and repurpose it for use in other applications; and even buil...