Re^3: How To Write A Scraper?

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Re^4: How To Write A Scraper? by Cody Pendant (Prior) on Jul 04, 2005 at 00:46 UTC
Aha, yes, that looks like the kind of thing. They have "Finance::Quote::Yahoo" and "Finance::Quote::Tdwaterhouse" and so on. Presumably there's some kind of upating mechanism which only updates the "Tdwaterhouse" part when they change their HTML? I will research further, thank you. ($_='kkvvttuu bbooppuuiiffss qqffssmm iibbddllffss') =~y~b-v~a-z~s; print	[reply]
Re^4: How To Write A Scraper? by Cody Pendant (Prior) on Jul 04, 2005 at 01:05 UTC
That was the kind of thing I was thinking of, yes. A top-level scraper which loads, when required, a sub-scraper for a specific area. Although finance quotes are of course very much more specific in form than "interesting articles from online papers"... ($_='kkvvttuu bbooppuuiiffss qqffssmm iibbddllffss') =~y~b-v~a-z~s; print	[reply]