---
name: "Debian::L10n::Spider"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "dl10n"
version: "3.00+nmu1"
release: "Debian 12 (Bookworm)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Debian::L10n::Spider"
---

# Debian::L10n::Spider(3pm)

## NAME

dl10n-spider -- crawl translator mailing lists (and BTS) for status updates

## SYNOPSIS

dl10n-spider \[options\] lang+

## DESCRIPTION

This script parses the debian-l10n-\<language\> mailing list archives. It looks for emails which title follow a specific format indicating what the author intend to translate, or the current status of his work on this translation.

Those informations are saved to a dl10n database which can then be used to build a l10n coordination page or any other useless statistics.

### get\_header(HTML)

get\_header extract the email header from the html page. This header starts at \<!--X-Head-of-Message--\> and stops at \<!--X-Head-of-Message-End--\>. As it contains html tags, they are also removed.

It gets a reference to an array of line (HTML) containing the html code of the page.

It returns a reference to an array containing the email header lines.

### get\_message(LANGUAGE, YEAR, MONTH, MESSAGE)

get\_message requests message to the archives of a l10n mailling.

It gets the language string (LANGUAGE), year (YEAR), month (MONTH) and message number (MESSAGE) integers.

It return a reference to an array containing the html lines or 'undef' if an error occured.

### get\_indexpage

retrieves all messages numbers and subjects from a page of messages sorted by date. It return a hash table with message number as keys and subject as values (this is really quicker than retrieving each message).

## LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

## COPYRIGHT (C)

```
 2003,2004 Tim Dijkstra
 2004 Nicolas Bertolissio
 2004 Martin Quinson
```