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4.5.2.1 Daily News

To be able to get the latest news from Wired we will set up a special section in the configuration file, so that we only have to run,

% Spider.py -s wired

every morning to get the latest version of Wired for later perusal.

The handheld friendly version of Wired is located at http://www.wired.com/news_drop/palmpilot/ and we want to pluck it to a depth of 3 levels. We also know that it only uses black and white images. This give us the following section in the configuration file (/home/pilot/.pluckerrc),

[wired]
bpp = 1
home_maxdepth = 3
home_url = http://www.wired.com/news_drop/palmpilot/
db_file = DB/Wired



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