Re^2: Why doesn't my scraper work?

Is there a way for HTML TableExtract to look up a table with the attribute "class = etc"? I've tried that before and it seems it doesn't like looking for a class name?

I love it when a program comes together - jdhannibal

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Re^3: Why doesn't my scraper work? by tangent (Parson) on Nov 19, 2013 at 23:00 UTC
it seems it doesn't like looking for a class name In what way does it not like it? As long as you initialise the module with the attributes you want it should not have a problem: `my $te = HTML::TableExtract->new( attribs=> { class=>'class-name' } ); $te->parse($html_string); for my $ts ($te->tables) { print "Table with class 'class-name' found\n"; }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Why doesn't my scraper work? by jdlev (Scribe) on Nov 19, 2013 at 22:58 UTC
For others wondering I figured it out by using WWW::Mechanize as opposed to LWP::Simple when fetching the original data. It's at least saving the full code from the page now by using www::mechanize. I love it when a program comes together - jdhannibal	[reply]