in reply to How do I get information from a vendors web page.

libwww-perl is a great place to start; that will handle fetching the HTML of the page for you.

After that, you can just search for the fields you're interested in with regexes, or use something like HTML::Parser to break up the HTML and then dig for the items you care about.

If all you care about is the last updated date, I'd skip HTML::Parser and just search for it, myself.
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Mike

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