Thread:LadyAlys/@comment-5379369-20140306080242/@comment-24150802-20140307212241

Okay, I'll put it on github. Thanks!

I did consider making the script fetch the data itself, and it would have some advantages, but also some disadvantages:

- the script would be significantly slower to run each time (unless the script fetched the data only when requested to with a user-specified "control" option, but then you'd be storing the data locally anyway)

- it would fail on any system that used a proxy server unless the proxy was configured in the script (or configured in system-wide settings, but that doesn't always happen)

- the user would have to install LWP::Simple if they hadn't already (it's part of some "standard" Perl installations, but not all)

It just seemed to open up a can of worms, so I left it out. :)  But I have no objections to you adding it if you wish to!