extract info form web pages

Adam Funk a24061 at ducksburg.com
Thu Mar 22 16:33:22 UTC 2007


On 2007-03-22, Dave Howorth wrote:

> Adam Funk wrote:
>> On 2007-03-22, Dimitri Mallis wrote:
>>> i was hoping for some script were i could type the URL, the key words & it
>>> would extract information into a new page on my hard drive...
>
>> Perl's LWP modules can do the fetching and HTML-stripping for you, but
>> if you don't already know some Perl, you'd need to learn quite a bit.
>
> If you are using Perl then also check out WWW::Mechanize and friends.

Looks interesting --- I hadn't seen that one.





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