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Sitescooper automatically retrieves the stories from several news websites, trims off extraneous HTML, and converts them into formats you can read on your Palm computing device for later reading on-the-move. It maintains a cache, and will avoid stories you`ve already read. It can handle 1-page sites...click here for more

Finance::Quote is a perl module that fetches delayed on-line stock quotes. The Finance::Quote can fetch quote from a variety of sources, including the NYSE, the ASX, and a number of European exchanges....click here for more

This script searches in a particular newsgroup for postings and extracts posted urls. newsurl prints a list containing author, subject and posted urls for each posting containing urls. You can specify filters for the subject and/or the author. So you can minimize the download. Optionally a html-outp...click here for more

quote is a very short and simple Perl script that retrieves stock quotes from Yahoo! Finance. It`s a clean and fast command-line interface for getting snapshot stock market prices. It uses the Perl LWP module if available, or lynx otherwise....click here for more

This script allows you to fetch a specified Web page using HTTP, FTP and GOPHER, and parses it for links counting them as it goes. With multiple sites it will calculate the average links per webpage. The script requires the Win32::Internet module....click here for more

This script fetches the backend file from The Linux Review server every 60 minutes (default) and saves it locally. On request, the local file is read and healines printed in a formatted manner. The script is useful for including headlines in html pages....click here for more

This is a simple Perl script that allows you to grab 5 most recent messages in Yahoo Club and display on your HTML page. It requires SSI....click here for more

Webget is a Perl script that downloads a list of specified URLs at night. It is only useful if you do not have to pay on a per-minute scale for your Internet connection; its advantages are that you will reach higher speeds with most ISPs, and you do not have to download while you are using your Inte...click here for more