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I am interested in learning Perl. I am using Learning Perl books and cpan’s web-sites for reference.
I am looking forward to do some web/text scraping application using Perl to apply whatever I have learnt.
Please suggest me some good options to begin with.
(this is not a homework. want to do something in Perl that would help me exploit basic Perl features)
If the web pages you want to scrape require JavaScript to function properly, you are going to need more than what WWW::Mechanize can provide you. You might even have to resort to controlling a specific browser via Perl (e.g. using Win32::IE::Mechanize or WWW::Mechanize::Firefox).
I haven’t tried it, but there is also WWW::Scripter with the WWW::Scripter::Plugin::JavaScript plugin.