First search with search.cpan.org for "Finance" without quotes and see if
you can't find a module that downloads the data you want, and if you don't,
you can use LWP::UserAgent or WWW::Mechanize and regular expressions to do
it.
A very simple example that gets the title of Google's page:
use LWP::Simple;
my $content = get("http://www.google.com/";);
my ($title) = $content =~ /<title[^>]*>(.*?)<\/title[^>]*>/gsi;
print $title;
Octavian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Dixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <beginners@perl.org>
Cc: "Alex Goor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: web scraping
Alex Goor wrote:
I was hoping to write a simple program (if that's possible) to open a
browser, go to a site, and scrape a piece of information from that
site.
For example, I was hoping to open a Safari of Firefox browser, go to
nyt.com and scrape the Dow Jones Industrial Average which is on the
homepage.
Does anyone know where I could get an example program that does this
kind of thing to teach myself the concepts?
Driving an actual Web browser is awkward and unnecessary unless the page
you want cannot be handled with a Perl module.
Take a look at WWW::Mechanize and see if it suits your purpose.
Rob
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