One less mystery in the universe, Xern replied to my tweet:
@spazm it was pulled off long time ago. bad design. need to come up with a better one.

And now a new question: Why was the design bad, what can we learn from it to move forward? I liked the premise of having a reusable component for site scraping, I feel like I'm so often doing one-off design for scraping.

My most recent scrapers have used WWW::Mechanize::TreeBuilder and HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath. Today I helped a friend put together one with Template::Extract, which was cute but seemed like a step backwards since it generates regexp's instead of using the tree nature of HTML.

Maybe I should add HTML::Selector::XPath to help me generate my XPath expressions. Tuning those is often my biggest pain with an XPath solution. This node and thread has some nice XPath tips: Re: HTML and Xpath.

In reply to Re: What happened to FEAR::API? by spazm
in thread What happened to FEAR::API? by spazm

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