1. I read through the info on HTTP::Recorder. It seemed promising (its cool in its own right... thanks for the link), but unfortunately, it doesn't support JavaScript interactions (as mentioned there and on CPAN).

Sure it does, http is http, and everything ajax is http

I'll def give it a try, but I'm disappointed that it sounds there isn't any way to do this strictly with Perl modules without needing 3rd party software to "cheat" to avoid the JS/AJAX. Seems like something should be out there to do this with Perl, as I'm certainly not the first to want to scrape such a page.

There is no cheating of any going on.

Do you want to spend 10min with firefox to figure out how to get data out of a website?

or do you want to spend 20+ years to create a pure-perl browser?

Are you disappointed that perl is written in C instead of Perl? Is using gcc to compile perl cheating?

Scripter::Plugin / Scripter::Plugin::JavaScript, WWW::Selenium, WWW::HtmlUnit, Gtk2::WebKit::Mechanize/Gtk3::WebKit, Win32::Watir/Win32::IEAutomation/Win32::IE::Mechanize

In reply to Re^3: Scraping Ajax / JS pop-up by Anonymous Monk
in thread Scraping Ajax / JS pop-up by Monk-E

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