Re: WWW::Mechanize::TreeBuilder and WWW::Mechanize. Following links but can't return without error

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Re^2: WWW::Mechanize::TreeBuilder and WWW::Mechanize. Following links but can't return without error by mdro79 (Initiate) on Jan 05, 2013 at 00:05 UTC
Oh sorry, here is the full code (I thought a snippet would be more clear in that case). This is everything from the folder, the 4 html pages and the perl code. mech.pl #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use WWW::Mechanize; use WWW::Mechanize::TreeBuilder; my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(); WWW::Mechanize::TreeBuilder->meta->apply($mech); $mech->get('file:///home/example/path/index.html'); die "Cannot open file: ", $mech->response->status_line unless $mech->success; my @list = $mech->look_down(_tag => "a", class => "links); foreach (@list) { my $url = "file:///home/example/path/"; $url = $url . $_->attr("href"); print $_->as_text(), " - ", $url, "\n"; $mech->get($url); $mech->back(); } [download] index.html <html> <head> <title>Web Scraper Testing Grounds</title> <style> .links { font-family: Sans-Serif; } .spans { font-family: Serif; } .trs { border: 1px solid; } </style> </head> <body> <h1>Test Page for WWW::Mechanize scraping</h1> <table> <tr class="trs"> <td><a href="s1.html" class="links">S1 Link Content</a></td> <td><span class="spans">Page S1</span></td> </tr> <tr class="trs"> <td><a href="s2.html" class="links">S2 Link Content</a></td> <td><span class="spans">Page S2</span></td> </tr> <tr class="trs"> <td><a href="s3.html" class="links">S3 Link Content</a></td> <td><span class="spans">Page S3</td> </tr> </table> </body> </html> [download] s1.html `<html> <head></head> <body> <h1>This is the S1 page, first in set</h1> </body> </html>` [download] s2.html `<html> <head></head> <body> <h1>This is the S2 page, second in set</h1> </body> </html>` [download] s3.html `<html> <head></head> <body> <h1>This is the S3 page, third and final</h1> </body> </html>` [download] When I try and run the code, this is the output I get mdro79@mycpu$ ./mech.pl S1 Link Content - file:///home/example/path/s1.html Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./scrMe.p +l line 31. Use of uninitialized value $tag in string eq at /usr/local/share/perl/ +5.14.2/HTML/Element.pm line 1109. Use of uninitialized value $tag in string eq at /usr/local/share/perl/ +5.14.2/HTML/Element.pm line 1109. - file:///home/example/path/ Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./scrMe.p +l line 31. Use of uninitialized value $tag in string eq at /usr/local/share/perl/ +5.14.2/HTML/Element.pm line 1109. Use of uninitialized value $tag in string eq at /usr/local/share/perl/ +5.14.2/HTML/Element.pm line 1109. - file:///home/example/path/ [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: WWW::Mechanize::TreeBuilder and WWW::Mechanize. Following links but can't return without error by choroba (Cardinal) on Jan 05, 2013 at 07:32 UTC
You do not have to go `back` if you are not `follow`ing the links. Also, if `$url` is static, you can declare it just once before entering the loop. لսႽ† ᥲᥒ⚪⟊Ⴙᘓᖇ Ꮅᘓᖇ⎱ Ⴙᥲ𝇋ƙᘓᖇ	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: WWW::Mechanize::TreeBuilder and WWW::Mechanize. Following links but can't return without error by Anonymous Monk on Jan 05, 2013 at 00:55 UTC
Whoa, well that is the trouble with trees and trying to save memory :) you can work around it like this `@list = map { $_->clone } @list;` [download] or `my @list = map { $_->clone } $mech->look_down(_tag => "a", class => "l +inks" );` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]