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By Max Maischein (‎Corion‎) from Frankfurt.pm
Date: Tuesday, 16 August 2011 16:10
Duration: 40 minutes
Target audience: Intermediate
Language:
Tags: webscraping www::mechanize::firefox

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Lots of information is available online if you have a web browser. Not all information is readily available to Perl.

This talk will demonstrate how to use WWW::Mechanize::Firefox to scrape information from websites. Guided by a problem the talk will explore various tools to get at information stored in HTML or presented through Javascript.

If time allows, I will also discuss real world data extraction problems faced by the audience.

Attended by:

• Max Maischein (‎Corion‎)
• Patrick Mevzek
• Leon Brocard (‎acme‎)
• Nicholas Clark
• H.Merijn Brand (‎Tux‎)
• Sung Sam Gong (‎sung‎)
• Gertraud Unterreitmeier (‎Gertraud‎)
• Jure Kodzoman (‎Yure‎)
• Stelios Gikas (‎sgikas‎)
• Tudor Constantin
• Henrik Hald Nørgaard
• Norbert Gruener
• Iulia Bublea
• Maria Hedberg
• Barbie
• Gunnar Koppel (‎wk‎)
• Alexander Orlovsky (‎nordicdyno‎)
• Emil Dragu
• Francoise Dehinbo (‎franky‎)
• Zbigniew Lukasiak (‎zby‎)
• R Geoffrey Avery (‎rGeoffrey‎)
• Michael Jemmeson (‎michael‎)
• Brian McCauley (‎Nobull‎)
• J. Nick Koston (‎bdraco‎)
• Jesse Vincent
• Eriks Remess
• Sue Mynott (‎virtualsue‎)
• Aleksandr Kotov (‎megakott‎)