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diff --git a/content/post/2009-06-06-modules-i-like-web-scraper.md b/posts/2009-06-06-modules-i-like-web-scraper.md index ba383d1..519fc10 100644 --- a/content/post/2009-06-06-modules-i-like-web-scraper.md +++ b/posts/2009-06-06-modules-i-like-web-scraper.md @@ -1,9 +1,3 @@ ---- -date: 2009-06-06T00:00:00Z -summary: In which I talk about Web::Scraper. -title: Modules I like Web::Scraper ---- - For [$work](http://rtgi.fr) I need to write scrapers. It used to be boring and painful. But thanks to [miyagawa](http://search.cpan.org/~miyagawa/), this is not true anymore. [Web::Scraper](http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Web::Scraper) offer a nice API: you can write your rules using XPath, you can chaine rules, a nice and simple syntax, etc. I wanted to export my data from my last.fm account but there is no API for this, so I would need to scrap them. All the data are available [as a web page](http://www.last.fm/user/franckcuny/tracks) that list your music. So the scraper need to find how many pages, and find the content on each page to extract a list of your listening. |