Re: Web scraping...move on if it fails

2008-12-14 Thread Chas. Owens
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 13:26, hotkitty wrote: > HI, > > I have a bunch of news websites that are stored in my mysql db and > each morning I have a script to go to each site and download the top > stories (this is for personal use, not commercial). My problem is that > sometimes www::mechanize wil

Re: Web scraping...move on if it fails

2008-12-14 Thread Filip van der Meeren
I am not familiar with the package, but personally I would place it in a eval block. Filip van der Meeren fi...@code2develop.com http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/perlmanager http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xlinterpreter On 13 Dec 2008, at 19:26, hotkitty wrote: HI, I have a bunch of

Re: web scraping

2008-04-28 Thread Octavian Rasnita
uot; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 9:15 PM Subject: Re: web scraping 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

Re: web scraping

2008-04-28 Thread Rob Dixon
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