Hi Monks,

I was into scraping sites from 2 months. I was using WWW::Mechanize. But now i fell into real trap when the sites started using flash players in them , and not giving the direct URLs for their content. Like earlier they are giving directly in their HTML Source, so i was getting the urls of videos very easy. But now they started embedding a flash player. (Like swf player or something like that...) and then they are passing some id's and those player will recognize that and will play. It is possible to get the source url of those by some tools (Like "Sothink Web Video Down loader for firefox" ...) but since i wanted to automate that whole process there must be some Packages in PERL which deals with these ... can anyone help me to get out of this ???



Thanks,
ShekarKCB

In reply to Is There any ways to scrape the site containing flash player??? by shekarkcb

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