title: Need help creating a web spider/bot script in Perl
body: <p>I'm using Perl as the only language for this assignment</p>
  
  <p>My Objective: </p>
  
  <p>To create a Perl script that will create a web spider/bot. 
  my script will download a webpage from the Internet, search and extract the Metatags, 
  then index them in a MySQL database. </p>
  
  <p>My database will then be searchable by the metatag fields or URL through a web interface. </p>
  
  <p>My script will also display the full database including  a special field that lists the numbers of records in the database.</p>
  
  <p>So my questions are: </p>
  
  <p>How do I go about creating a script for a web spider that will download a webpage from the Internet and extract Metatags ?</p>
  
  <p>What resources can i read up on to help me in creating this or any script for that matter?</p>
  
  <p>Thank you for your time!</p>