I think it would help to split your problem space conceptually between the scraping and the parsing. As far as scraping is concerned, Selenium is a very good tool for automating multiple browsers and testing against them. If all you need is a single browser, look at, say, WWW::Mechanize::Chrome. But do you actually need a browser? If not, LWP is probably all you need. And Dave Cross is the publisher of that book, not the author.

On to the parsing, I have tried a cut down version of your JSON. My code is:

use strict;
use warnings;
use JSON::PP;
use Data::Dumper;

my $scrape = <<EOF;
<script>

    $(function () {

        var opportunity = new
        US.Opportunity.CandidateOpportunityDetail({"Id":"10eb1d6c-359b
+-4f10-84d0-ca2525d88cce","Title":"Relationship Manager","Featured":fa
+lse,"FullTime":true,"HoursPerWeek":null,"JobCategoryName":"Qualified 
+Client Services","Locations":[{"Id":"dd1188b1-18d2-5e8d-9f93-aadbe1a3
+fd22","LocalizedName":"CA-Remote","LocalizedLocationId":null,"Localiz
+edDescription":"CA - Remote"}]
    });
EOF
$scrape =~ m/\((\{.*\})\)/gms;
my $json = $1;
my $ref = decode_json $json;
print Dumper $ref;

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Does that give you what you need? If not, you may need to specify your problem more clearly.

Regards,

John Davies

In reply to Re: Quick 'n dirty extraction of JSON from an HTML page by davies
in thread Quick 'n dirty extraction of JSON from an HTML page by davebaker

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