How can I screen scrape with Perl?

Question

I need to display some values that are stored in a website, for that I need to scrape the website and fetch the content from the table. Any ideas?

Answer 1

If you are familiar with jQuery you might want to check out pQuery, which makes this very easy:

## print every 
 tag in page
use pQuery;

pQuery("http://google.com/search?q=pquery")
    ->find("h2")
    ->each(sub {
        my $i = shift;
        print $i + 1, ") ", pQuery($_)->text, "\n";
    });

There's also HTML::DOM.

Whatever you do, though, don't use regular expressions for this.