How does Plucker work?
• Plucker consists of three parts: the parser, the conduit, and the viewer. The parser and the conduit have been merged into one complete Python version and eventually there will also be a Perl version of the parser. The standalone conduit is written in Perl and there is also a conduit written in Delphi for the Windows users. The parser runs on your main computer (the one with the HotSync cradle or IR port physically attached to it, or on a networked machine which allows you to connect to it via Network HotSync). It gathers the web pages you specify and follows the links on those pages to a chosen depth (specified by you). You specify the web pages you want to gather by creating a “home.html” file, which also becomes your home page. The links on “home.html” are followed to a depth specified by the optional “maxdepth” attribute which you can include in the tag in the home.html file. The parser finds new links to retrieve and converts the pages to a format that the viewer
