If all you need to do is simple web scraping, WWW::Mechanize and HTML::TableExtract might be of interest to you as well. WWW::Mechanize offers you a browser-like API, while HTML::TableExtract offers you an easy way to extract rows from HTML tables.

A module written by me is WWW::Mechanize::Shell, which offers you a command line browser that can output a Perl program recreating all actions done by you.

perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ;    # The  
$d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider
($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new   #in the
HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' #  web
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