Hi fellow perl monks.

I need to organize the development of some 50+ small web scrapers for a similar number of pages on the Internet. The scrapers parse and extract data of similar structure across the different data sources.

So far, a few scripts has been written using WWW::Mechanize, HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath or HTML::TokeParser. This has worked fairly well, but I can see that there is a lot of boilerplate code across the scripts that could be reused. Also, I know that in some respect, we need a toolkit that doesn't give us too many ways to solve the same problem, so we can somewhat standardize the code.

I took a look at Scrappy, but the fact that it uses Web::Scraper, which in turn seems to be only partly documented has somewhat put me off.

Does anyone have any recommendations wrt. good web scraping toolkits?

Regards,

Michael.

In reply to Web scraping toolkit? by mzedeler

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