This looks like something I might want to check out. I've been writing modest little web bots/crawlers in shell script for quite a few years now. I think it w

This looks like something I might want to check out. I've been writing modest little web bots/crawlers in shell script for quite a few years now. I think it was a comment on HN just yesterday that prompted an impulse purchase of Michael Schrenk's Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers (ebooks at nostarch.com currently 1/2 the dead-tree version price). Even though I knew the platform going in (PHP w/ the CURL lib), at every page I can't help but gasp at what an awkward platform this is for the task. I'm only 1/3 of the way through, so I'm still hoping to learn some advanced techniques that I haven't thought of yet. At the least I hope to walk away from the book with some new ways to look at the problem space. Anyway, as someone who's wanted to learn and dig into Lisp, this library sounds really cool. I'm not a fan of anything which depends on Java, so maybe the libray can be ported to something more scriptable like ECL, NewLISP, or SLisp. I will, however, install Clojure and give it a spin.