Showing posts with label randomization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label randomization. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

"Pseudo Randomly" retrieve data...

When you want to crawl some websites and you want to hide yourself a little, here's a simple trick to change randomly your user-agent string.
There's a very convenient function in erlang called 'uniform' from the module 'random', you can use it by calling 'random:uniform(MaxValue)' where MaxValue is the high limit.

So if you want to generate a random value from 1 to 5 you can simple use, 'random:uniform(5)'...

Now that you know how to generate random values, here's some code that do just what's the title say:

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