Perl & LWP: Fetching Web Pages, Parsing Html, Writing Spiders & More Contributor(s): Burke, Sean (Author) |
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ISBN: 0596001789 ISBN-13: 9780596001780 Publisher: O'Reilly Media OUR PRICE: $35.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2002 Annotation: This comprehensive guide to LWP and its applications comes with many practical examples. Topics include fetching Web pages, submitting forms, using various techniques for HTML parsing, handling cookies and authentication. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Computers | Programming Languages - Perl - Computers | Web - Design |
Dewey: 005.133 |
LCCN: 2002071540 |
Physical Information: 0.68" H x 7.08" W x 9.2" (0.92 lbs) 260 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Perl soared to popularity as a language for creating and managing web content, but with LWP (Library for WWW in Perl), Perl is equally adept at consuming information on the Web. LWP is a suite of modules for fetching and processing web pages.The Web is a vast data source that contains everything from stock prices to movie credits, and with LWP all that data is just a few lines of code away. Anything you do on the Web, whether it's buying or selling, reading or writing, uploading or downloading, news to e-commerce, can be controlled with Perl and LWP. You can automate Web-based purchase orders as easily as you can set up a program to download MP3 files from a web site.Perl & LWP covers:
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