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in thread web spider

WWW::Mechanize is the friendlier version of LWP::UserAgent

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Re^3: web spider
by 1nickt (Canon) on Nov 13, 2015 at 05:18 UTC

    Agreed. But LWP is used all over the place and he's more likely to find it in his tutorials and books and classes. You'd be at a sore disadvantage if you didn't know some LWP in my opinion. But you may think me an old fart.

    The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

      1nickt: Agreed. But LWP is used all over the place and he's more likely to find it in his tutorials and books and classes. You'd be at a sore disadvantage if you didn't know some LWP in my opinion. But you may think me an old fart.

      WWW::Mechanize is a subclass of LWP, a very very thin layer on top of LWP, that makes LWP a joy to use, pure LWP is too much bookkeeping -- for example, take a look around perlmonks for amount of noobs who forgot to make a cookie jar when trying to learn LWP -- Mechanize takes care of that chore

        No links to any modules mentioned? ✓

        No links to PerlMonks articles claimed to exist? ✓

        Vague description which is essentially wrong ("very, very thin layer") but could be considered right with a bit of squinting? ✓

        Gushing without saying anything really? ✓

        Self-elevation by calling others noobs? ✓

        Not helping OP in any way whatsoever? ✓

        No code? ✓

        If you're not sundialsvc4, you're doing a very convincing impression. And I repeat, the upvotes you get anonymously do not prove any conspiracy, only that everyone here is genial and gives participants the benefit of the doubt.