SomeNEWS allows you to check for articles on the net, filter it, take off the HTML, etc. It can be used to make Web portal, or have article locally on you PC, etc.

Webget is a Perl script that downloads a list of specified URLs at night. It is only useful if you do not have to pay on a per-minute scale for your Internet connection;

HAMweather is a free weather software package that can be used to add custom weather capabilities to your web site. These added weather forecasting abilities will provide the user interactivity you need to keep your web visitors coming back. HAMweather 3 is template based to allow easy customization to match your web site and can provide weather data for the US, Canada and hundreds of locations around world.

Finance::Quote is a perl module that fetches delayed on-line stock quotes. The Finance::Quote can fetch quote from a variety of sources, including the NYSE, the ASX, and a number of European exchanges.

BBCNews Fetcher is a Perl script that fetches the latest news from the Arabic BBC news page and gives you options to format your news. Options include the ability to choose the number of news you want, the number of news you want with descriptions, weither or not to display the images that accompany the first three news items. The script also have an option to make it output pure java script to be directly inserted into your home page without the need for any server side technologies like SSI or PHP using only one HTML tag.

Dtheatre News Grabber is a CGI/Perl script that allows you to fetch the newest Digital Theater news headlines. It comes with a few customizable features. It requires IO::Socket and IO::Handle modules.

This free perl script will fetch the headlines from MaximumEdge.com and display them with links to their articles on your website. You can choose which categories to display including business, entertainment, health, international, sports, tech, US, and more.

NewsFinder is a set of Perl scripts for providing remote content integration with a website. News headlines from eight popular webfeeds are displayed on a page together with links to their stories. Automatic realtime updates. Viewers have complete control over format and content from the web page. Detailed instructions, easy installation.

Bid Monkey is a command line tool, written in Perl, created to automatically place a bid on an eBay auction at the last minute. It will run in the foreground or background, and only requires basic information from the user, such as username, password, item number, and the maximum bid to place. Its most unique feature is that it will automatically determine the auction ending time. All you have to do is tell it how long before the end of the auction you would like to place your bid. Bid Monkey will work internationally (eBay.de for example) due to the fact that any item number can be viewed through any eBay site.

BBC News retriever allows yout to display news headlines from any of the the BBC News portal sites (excluding foreign languages), e.g. UK, World, sport, politics, science etc. The latest version fixes a minor bug and introduces some new features: Form parsing using POST or GET (untainted data only); Multiple sites within the BBC News domain (excluding foreign language pages); Concise mode, i.e. no summaries; Target option lets you choose if a new browser window is opened; Specify the number of stories displayed; Optional templates for pop-up windows. Deatiled instructions and test script available.