Practical Web scraping with Web::Scraper

By Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (‎miyagawa‎) from Shibuya.pm
Date: Tuesday, 28 August 2007 16:45
Duration: 20 minutes
Target audience: Any
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Talk: http://www.slideshare.net/miyagawa/webscraper

Screen-scraping is still an usefull technique to extract data from the web, even in the age of Web 2.0. Web::Scraper is a toolkit that allows you to write your custom scraper with CSS selector, DOM and XPath using very simple DSL (Domain Specific Languages).

This talk discusses how easy, powerful but still maintainable and less fragile your scraper can be, by showing lots of examples.