Greetings Monks,

I am trying to access a table written in HTML code from a website. Currently I am just trying to get the program to output the HTML code in the terminal so that I know I have captured the right code. From there I plan to use HTML::TableExtract. The problem I am having is that when using HTML::TreeBuilder, it only outputs the page source, which doesn't contain the table of interest.


My code: 
 
       use strict;
       use warnings;
       use HTML::TreeBuilder;
       my $url = "https://cancer.sanger.ac.uk/census";
       my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_url($url);
       say $tree->as_HTML;

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This is the output: view-source:https://cancer.sanger.ac.uk/census

What I am trying to access is the table under the 'Abbreviations' tab at this link: https://cancer.sanger.ac.uk/census



Thanks!

In reply to How to access a web pages HTML elements? by cookersjs

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