FatPhil's RateBeer Stats Compilation Bot

This bot is a perl script which should do no more than the following once per day, and with a 15s-30s delay between each access::

• Scrape each of the 4 sets of regional top beer raters lists (13+46+16+51 gets)
• Scrape each of the European countries top beer raters lists (8+53 gets)
• Once per week scrape each of the European countries top place raters lists (8+53 gets)

From that it generates HTML pages with aggregate statistics, some of which link back to RateBeer where it has a page dedicated to that single statistic (such as a single user's ratings from a single country).

The statistics this bot amalgamates are compiled by RateBeer from data entered by its users, and as such is owned by RateBeer. Permision for this has been kindly granted by RateBeer, as it is being gathered as a service to the members of the site who crave more stats, such as myself. It is only hosted on FatPhil's servers because of the impractical nature of any alternatives.

The bot identifies itself with the user agent "Mozilla/5.0 (FatPhil-RBBot; +http://fatphil.org/beer/stats/robot.html; fatphil+rbbot@fatphil.org".