Seriously, last warning. Thread is over. Let it go, guys; go for a walk or
something.
thanks,
john,
aka your list mom.
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On 11-10-26 03:22 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
If that's not available, I'd frown on any second step, unless the answer
is "go ahead and scrape it from our fully-composed web pages".
Facts cannot be copyrighted. The prices they offer their goods at are
facts. Only creative works can be copyri
> "Jeswin" == Jeswin writes:
Jeswin> I want to pull price data from a website and would like your advice on
Jeswin> getting started.
First step: ask the site owner for a data feed.
If that's not available, I'd frown on any second step, unless the answer
is "go ahead and scrape it from our
How about we don't have this particular fight again on this list, okay? The
original question has been answered from both the "completely correct, future
proof, Do It Right" crowd and the "pragmatic, works good enough, 80% is better
than nothing" crowd. Unless the original poster needs clarif
On 11-10-26 11:00 AM, Paul Johnson wrote:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Using the argument that regular expressions can't
parse HTML because HTML isn't regular is fine. Until you realise that
Perl's regular expressions, along with those of pretty much every other
language or library, aren't actually regula
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 03:22:24PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Hi Jeswin,
>
> On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:04:32 -0400
> Jeswin wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I'm still a beginner but I have a project I want to work on.
> >
> > I want to pull price data from a website and would like your advice on
> > gett
On 11-10-26 09:22 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
First of all, you should be using WWW::Mechanize or something similar to
perform the web-automation. Then you should use XML::LibXML's HTML parsing
mode or HTML::TreeBuilder or similar to retrieve the data from the HTML. Do
*not* parse HTML using regular
Hi Jeswin,
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:04:32 -0400
Jeswin wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm still a beginner but I have a project I want to work on.
>
> I want to pull price data from a website and would like your advice on
> getting started.
>
> This is my idea and a basic implementation of the process:
>
>
Hi all,
I'm still a beginner but I have a project I want to work on.
I want to pull price data from a website and would like your advice on
getting started.
This is my idea and a basic implementation of the process:
1) The input is coverted to the web link, i.e., if I type in "force of will"
the
