On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 01:58:37PM -0700, Ben Johnson wrote: > Hey. > > When I demo'd my POS system at the last meeting I was asked by a couple > people if I was using a certain package to parse the html. I answered > "no" and that I was using the LWP stuff, to which the response was > "yeah, this package is built on top of the LWP stuff." I don't remember > the name of that package. Will someone please refresh my memory?
I think it was WWW::Mechanize. Haven't used it myself... I don't see anything indicating it has some sort of javascript engine builtin.. dunno.. > > My greatest hope for this thing is that it can run the javascript found > in a page. I played around with adding some code to my parser that fed > the parsed javascript into the perl JavaScript module. It wouldn't run > though because the 'document' object didn't exist. making a 'document' > object seemed a bit overwhelming, so I stopped pursing that strategy. > If something like this already exists though, and it works even > moderately well, I think my script would be much more tolerant to small > changes in the site I'm trying to interact with. > > - Ben > > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
