[clug] Perl (or python) page scraping tools

[Michael James]

The grubby task of HTML page-scraping is rearing its ugly head.

The first task is to snarf a 2 column table,
 the first column is the variable name
 the second, its value.

Ideally I'd like to get back a hash:   table{name} = value

Sounds simple but the HTML::TableParse module
 returns a complicated and too general structure.

Anyone got any recommendations of modules for scraping HTML?

michaelj

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