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

I have used HTML Table Extract in the past. I personally find it a bit clumsy to use, but maybe I did not understand the object model well. I usually use this part of the manual to examine the data:

 use HTML::TableExtract;
 $te = HTML::TableExtract->new();
 $te->parse($html_string);

     # Examine all matching tables
     foreach $ts ($te->tables) {
       print "Table (", join(',', $ts->coords), "):\n";
       foreach $row ($ts->rows) {
          print join(',', @$row), "\n";
       }
     }`