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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-output can be generated.

getstockquote is an embeddable Perl script that fetches stock or mutual fund data from a variety of sources. It uses command line arguments for grabbing data and so can be used in different ways without altering the script itself. It's "embeddable" because it was designed to be run from within another HTML framework such as via server-side execs, regular CGI scripts, or PHP. It gets data from: NYSE quotes, Europe quotes, Fidelity Investments Quotes, T. Rowe Price, Vanguard Group, Australian quotes from ASX, and Annuities from TIAA-CREF.

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.

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, 1-page with diffing, 2-level and 3-level sites, and it's very easy to add a new site to its list. Even if you don't have a Palm handheld, it's still handy for simple website-to-text conversion.

SomeNEWS allows you to check for articles on the net, filter it, take off the HTML, etc. It can be used to make Web portal, or have article locally on you PC, etc.

NortelNews is a news grabber for Corporate news released by Nortel Networks. Update it once a day or even more often to keep interesting dynamic content on your web site. Its in perl. It is not a CGI but could be converted very easily.

Display live KLSE stock summary on your web page. To make the stock summary more stable, this program is separated into two scripts.

A CGI script for extracting the news headlines from The Star newspaper (Malaysia) and displaying them on your web page.

This CGI script lets you extract the local and international Chinese news headlines from Sin Chew Jit Poh newspaper (Malaysia) and display them on your web page.

This is a CGI script that allows you to extract the forex info from The Star newspaper (Malaysia) and display them on your web page.

This is a Perl script that grabs the latest news from Bangkok Post (Thailand) English newspaper and displays it in a web page via SSI (or as a new page - directly linked to the script).

Bid Monkey is a command line tool, written in Perl, created to automatically place a bid on an eBay auction at the last minute. It will run in the foreground or background, and only requires basic information from the user, such as username, password, item number, and the maximum bid to place. Its most unique feature is that it will automatically determine the auction ending time. All you have to do is tell it how long before the end of the auction you would like to place your bid. Bid Monkey will work internationally (eBay.de for example) due to the fact that any item number can be viewed through any eBay site.

Small script which retrieves the current Homeland Security Advisory System threat level and displays an image. Can use as an image or with SSI (Server Side Includes). Requires HTTP::Request and LWP.

Creativyst's SMFeed.pl is a server side perl script that allows you to display content such as news headlines and blog indexes on your web page. JSMFeed converts RSS to a standard JavaScript file for each feed. This gives webmasters complete creative control over how the information in each RSS feed is displayed on their pages.

Displays eClickz.com PPC listings on your site based off of randomly selected keywords that you choose. This could be used as an alternative to Google's Adsense, as it has a similar format and you earn a portion of the revenue earned from each click thru your site generates. Very easy to set up and implement. No SSI required, only one line of javascript.

This is a simple script that uses the XML feed from ROLSearch.com's affiliate program to display Adsense styled ads on your page. Very easy to set up and implement. No SSI required, only one line of javascript.

This is an advertising display script for use with RevenuePilot.com's affiliate program. Revenue Pilot offers 60% revenue sharing, which is on the higher end of the spectrum. This is a great alternative to Google's Adsense. Very easy to set up and implement. No SSI required, only one line of javascript.

Add news headlines to your webpage by using javascript or a perl cgi script. Headline databases are available for free and can be used by webmasters and developers in their projects.

GETSNOW - A lookup utility for getting city snow depth reports from wunderground.com's listing. Copyleft 2005 - Nathan E. Pralle DESCRIPTION: This utility queries Wunderground.com's snow depth listing and parses it to derive whatever state and cities you want to see the snow depth for. SYNTAX: perl getsnow.pl [] ... (multi-word names in quotes) IE: perl getsnow Hampton Sheffield "Mason City" REQUIRED: LWP::Simple module

This Hot Links SQL add-on fetches urls from Google, DMOZ, & Yahoo based on keywords entered. Also spiders any url entered and fetches the outgoing urls. Great way to add bulk to your Hot Links SQL directory.