RoboJoel

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Anyone ever hear of this thing?

Cliff notes: Free Java desktop app that will spider sites (given a start site like thehun.com) and lifts all porn. Set it to spider before ya goto bed, and wake up to a shitload of pure free porn leaving WM's at a loss.

What is RoboJoel?
RoboJoel is a personal pornography search engine designed to scour the web for tastefully photographed adult literature that meets the search criteria and file formats you choose. This is good because it saves you the trouble of surfing around, getting stuck in click traps and dealing with all other manner of aggressive advertising trickery practiced by pornographers, many of whom are foreigners and not to be trusted.

Essentially, it's TiVo for porn. You enter your criteria, start the scan, and the material matching your search is downloaded automatically, typically while you're off doing something else. In a recent test over the lab's DSL, an overnight scan for movie files yielded over 1600 individual movie files by morning. Chafing in the user acceptance laboratory was severe. Tests over modems typically yield about 200 full size JPEG images every five minutes.

How does it work?
RoboJoel works a lot like any web search engine. You give RoboJoel a start page (like www.thehun.com) and RoboJoel scans the links on that page for content. You can give RoboJoel as many start pages as you like and a list of suggested start pages is included. RoboJoel follows the links matching your search criteria and downloads any pornography it finds there onto your hard drive. RoboJoel also supports spidering to any page depth and can automatically detect new "index pages" and add them to the suggested list of start pages. The traditional spidering approach is augmented with Lateral URL Pattern Searches. Electronic purveyors of nudity typically organize their preview pages in separate directories which contain numeric patterns. RoboJoel can test their site for these patterns and typically find 20 to 30 times as much pornography from a single link.

Source: http://www.jeffreydavidpayne.com/robojoel/robojoel.cfm

The good thing is, you can view the source code. Maybe some savvy programmer webmasters can find some cool ways to fuck with this thing so that the freeloader wakes up to 5000 pics of ******* or something