Siegfried Heintze wrote:
[Siegfried Heintze] I've been using HTML::Parser with MySQL and I've had a
lot of problems with (both RAM and disk) memory leaks and multi-threading. I
was really disappointed, for example, discover that having multiple threads
did not really speed things up at all. I wonder if HTML::Parser is not
multi-threaded and blocks all my threads when there is a single outstanding
socket READ in progress?
I specifically chose DBI and MySQL so I could have multiple database
operations going concurrently.
HTML::Parser does not seem to do form submission either.
Well, I'm writing another scraper and thought I would experiment with some
different packages. I looked at WWW::Mechanize and it does form submission
but it only appears to follow links. I could not find any functions for
fetching and parsing the HTML.
I get a lot of matches on CPAN when I search for WWW. Can anyone recommend
some alternatives to HTML::Parser I could experiment with?
Thanks,
Siegfried
look here, and you'll see how I used WWW::Mechanize initially and then used the
object to further parse the response, while experimenting to teach myself some
OO skills.
http://www.webdragon.net/miscel/tinyurl.htm
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