Hi Corion

Unfortunately I don't have access to the server machine itself, I'm doing it over the internet entirely. I've been using Web::Scraper which works really well with properly formatted HTML but not with CGI. I'm trying to get the URL and name of entries in the table. For example the code I've been using is: 


#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use URI;
use Web::Scraper;

open FILE, ">file.txt" or die $!;

# website to scrape
my $urlToScrape = "http://www.molmovdb.org/cgi-bin/browse.cgi";

# prepare data
my $teamsdata = scraper {
 # we will save the urls from the teams
 process "tr.cell2> A", 'urls[]' => '@href';
 # we will save the team names
 process "tr.cell2> A", 'teams[]' => 'TEXT';
};

# scrape the data
my $res = $teamsdata->scrape(URI->new($urlToScrape));

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Please follow the link given in the code and open its page source for an example? best wishes Dan

In reply to Re^2: Web Scraping on CGI Scripts? by fraizerangus
in thread Web Scraping on CGI Scripts? by fraizerangus

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