Re: Re: Grabbing data from webpages

Well modules are a great thing in many cases but I don't think a module knows what I want to grab off weatherchannel.com. I would rather some more hardcoding than module use because I don't want to save anything to my system as it says in that documentation. Instead I would rather have it like statswhore.pl. It grabs the information and tells a couple stats in a nicely printed fashion. Thanx for your help but it was a little off what I was looking for :-)

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Re: Re: Re: Grabbing data from webpages by eg (Friar) on Jan 29, 2001 at 01:01 UTC
I can't speak for Beatnick, but my impression is that the suggestion is to use WebFetch as a basis to fill your own needs. Download it, play with it, see what comes close to doing what you want, copy it and modify. It's a great way to learn and it gives you the opportunity to give back to the project (chances are if you find a certain application useful (e.g. Weather Channel, TV listings, whatever), someone will too.) To answer your original question, some combination of LWP and HTML::Parser (or one of its subclasses) will do what you want.	[reply]

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by eg (Friar) on Jan 29, 2001 at 01:01 UTC

I can't speak for Beatnick, but my impression is that the suggestion is to use WebFetch as a basis to fill your own needs. Download it, play with it, see what comes close to doing what you want, copy it and modify. It's a great way to learn and it gives you the opportunity to give back to the project (chances are if you find a certain application useful (e.g. Weather Channel, TV listings, whatever), someone will too.)

To answer your original question, some combination of LWP and HTML::Parser (or one of its subclasses) will do what you want.

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