Re: [Pharo-users] If you have to do web data scraping, what tool would you use?

[stepharo]

I can imagine that too :) because Soup was often trial and error.

Stef


Le 27/6/16 à 11:26, PBKResearch a écrit :

Hello

I have used Soup, but I now prefer XMLHTMLParser, because I find it easier to relate the structure of the XML output to that of the original web page. It is also possible to use XPath to locate the target area more quickly. I particularly like Monty’s ‘Smalltalkish’ adaptation of XPath (see the last para of the class comment to XPath).

Hope this helps

Peter Kenny