Mango Monks,

Looking for a good, simple, quick to get up and running, module to scrape some data from a table in a web page.

The url is basic, no authentication.

The table looks like:

City 1Cloudy-5°C
City 2Cloudy-10°C
City 3Light Snow1°C
City 4Fog Depositing Ice-11°C

  <table width="100%" border=1 cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1">
<TR valign="top" BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF>
<td align="top"><a href='/forecast/city.html?1'>City 1</a></td><td now
+rap align="top">Cloudy</td><td nowrap align="right">-5&deg;C</td></tr
+>
<TR valign="top" BGCOLOR=#EEF5EE>
<td align="top"><a href='/forecast/city.html?2'>City 2</a></td><td now
+rap align="top">Cloudy</td><td nowrap align="right">-10&deg;C</td></t
+r>
<TR valign="top" BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF>
<td align="top"><a href='/forecast/city.html?3'>City 3</a></td><td now
+rap align="top">Light Snow</td><td nowrap align="right">1&deg;C</td><
+/tr>
<TR valign="top" BGCOLOR=#EEF5EE>
<td align="top"><a href='/forecast/city.html?4'>City 4</a></td><td now
+rap align="top">Fog Depositing Ice</td><td nowrap align="right">-11&d
+eg;C</td></tr>
</table>

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And I want to scrape off the city names, conditions, temperature. I can count on the columns always being in the same order.

Not hard to write a custom parser, but if thee's a module out there ideally suited to this kind of thing, that'd be preferable.

Thanks.





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