Alex Goor wrote: > I was hoping to write a simple program (if that's possible) to open a > browser, go to a site, and scrape a piece of information from that > site. > > For example, I was hoping to open a Safari of Firefox browser, go to > nyt.com and scrape the Dow Jones Industrial Average which is on the > homepage. > > Does anyone know where I could get an example program that does this > kind of thing to teach myself the concepts?
Driving an actual Web browser is awkward and unnecessary unless the page you want cannot be handled with a Perl module. Take a look at WWW::Mechanize and see if it suits your purpose. Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
