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Screen-scraping with WWW::Mechanize

There's a neat article on Perl.com: Screen-scraping with WWW::Mechanize.

Screen-scraping is the process of emulating an interaction with a Web site - not just downloading pages, but filling out forms, navigating around the site, and dealing with the HTML received as a result. As well as for traditional lookups of information - like the example we'll be exploring in this article - we can use screen-scraping to enhance a Web service into doing something the designers hadn't given us the power to do in the first place.

I never knew this stuff existed. Check it out!

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Daniel Nolan (http://www.bleedingego.co.uk/) wrote:

That almost makes me want to learn Perl. Pretty cool :-)

∴ Daniel Nolan | 24-Jan-2003 7:08am est | http://www.bleedingego.co.uk/ | #1327

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