On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 19:47, Mike McClain <mike.j...@cox.net> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 06:51:37PM +0100, Rob Dixon wrote: >> On 01/08/2011 11:03, VinoRex.E wrote: >> > >> >Hi everyone i am a beginer for Perl can you give me a psedocode and a >> >sample code for a spider program.It will be helpful in understanding web >> >interfaces.Thank you >> >> Since the purpose of your efforts is to learn Perl, I think a module >> like WWW::Mechanize is the wrong choice. To write a program that >> accesses the internet, you should install and study the LWP library. > > For my first ever web ap I started with Mechanize because I'd seen it > recommended here so many times. I don't believe it possible to use > Mechanize without having to become quite familiar with most of the > LWP library, particularly LWP::UserAgent, HTML::TreeBuilder, > HTML::Form. > JMHO,
yeah, that's why i like Web::Scraper. now that i know it (even though it's been three month sense i've had the need for it), i can still scrape a site in 15 minutes. but, for more intense stuff, i can understand mechanize - most sites aren't that complex though. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/