Greetings most gracious of monks.

Have any of you ever used perl for screen scraping? I play poker online at times and was wondering if I could write something that can access the software and grab the names of the players at my table, and feed that into a player stats website. Instead of looking up each player's stats at my table manually, I'd call the script and it would do it for me.

Never ceases to amaze me that I'll do some work to help me be lazier. :)

I would use WWW::Mechanize to fire off multiple HTTP requests to grab the stats for each player. I know I could download the software they have and install it but, I'd rather write something myself for sh#t's and giggles. :)

Thanks in advance for any input.

In reply to Screen Scraping? by naveed010

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