Re: is it really that simple?

[Carl Malamud <xxxx@media.org>]

On Apr 1, 2009, at 3:53 PM, Stephen Schultze wrote:

> That's the basic idea.  The cookie will last for a week.  The  
> crawling involves some annoying parsing (including generating POST  
> requests) but once you have it figured out it's not terribly complex.
can actually do this one all with get I think ... see below.

> You start with a given case number, go to a standard URL to grab the  
> docket, parse the docket to get the document sub-ages, request each  
> of those, parse each of those to see if you need to do get another  
> sub-page, and ultimately parse out the PDF link (there are different  
> standards used in different versions of PACER), and then request the  
> PDF.
I get all that.  Not writing a full crawler, just need to clean up  
after you folks and get some missing files, so it will actually be  
much simpler (for each directory, I issue a call to qryAttorneys.pl ...
https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/qryAttorneys.pl?114972

where the number is the directory name ... pretty simple.  Just need  
to 12,000 gets and I'm done with stage 1.
Carl