Chapter 2. Assembling a Toolbox

Hacks #8-32

Perl Modules

Resources You May Find Helpful

Hack  8.   Installing Perl Modules

Hack  9.   Simply Fetching with LWP::Simple

Hack  10.   More Involved Requests with LWP::UserAgent

Hack  11.   Adding HTTP Headers to Your Request

Hack  12.   Posting Form Data with LWP

Hack  13.   Authentication, Cookies, and Proxies

Hack  14.   Handling Relative and Absolute URLs

Hack  15.   Secured Access and Browser Attributes

Hack  16.   Respecting Your Scrapee's Bandwidth

Hack  17.   Respecting robots.txt

Hack  18.   Adding Progress Bars to Your Scripts

Hack  19.   Scraping with HTML::TreeBuilder

Hack  20.   Parsing with HTML::TokeParser

Hack  21.   WWW::Mechanize 101

Hack  22.   Scraping with WWW::Mechanize

Hack  23.   In Praise of Regular Expressions

Hack  24.   Painless RSS with Template::Extract

Hack  25.   A Quick Introduction to XPath

Hack  26.   Downloading with curl and wget

Hack  27.   More Advanced wget Techniques

Hack  28.   Using Pipes to Chain Commands

Hack  29.   Running Multiple Utilities at Once

Hack  30.   Utilizing the Web Scraping Proxy

Hack  31.   Being Warned When Things Go Wrong

Hack  32.   Being Adaptive to Site Redesigns



Spidering Hacks
Spidering Hacks
ISBN: 0596005776
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 157

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