Question: need to parse web pages to extract data

[Troll]

Hi,

The site is:
www.homepriceguide.com.au

A sample page with data can be seen at:
http://www.homepriceguide.com.au/sn...?action=view&suburbORpostcode=6153&source=apm

The only thing that changes is the postcode so the next page in line will
be:
http://www.homepriceguide.com.au/sn...?action=view&suburbORpostcode=6154&source=apm

etc etc

What I'm trying to do is to extract price info and save it to a file where
each record has the postcode as its ID. Last year I wrote a script that went
through the site and gathered the data for me and dumped the results in a
file. Unfortunately it's gone walking somewhere. Can someone pls remind me
which module is best to be used here (I'm mainly concerned with the parsing
side right now)? I have not coded for <> 12mths so I'm a bit rusty now but
hopefully it will all come back.

Let me know if the above is not clear.

Thanks in advance.
Voitec

 

[Peter Wyzl]

Hi,

The site is:
www.homepriceguide.com.au

A sample page with data can be seen at:
http://www.homepriceguide.com.au/sn...?action=view&suburbORpostcode=6153&source=apm

The only thing that changes is the postcode so the next page in line will
be:
http://www.homepriceguide.com.au/sn...?action=view&suburbORpostcode=6154&source=apm

etc etc

What I'm trying to do is to extract price info and save it to a file where
each record has the postcode as its ID. Last year I wrote a script that
went
through the site and gathered the data for me and dumped the results in a
file. Unfortunately it's gone walking somewhere. Can someone pls remind me
which module is best to be used here (I'm mainly concerned with the
parsing
side right now)? I have not coded for <> 12mths so I'm a bit rusty now but
hopefully it will all come back.

Start with the LWP set of modules....

 

[Voitec]

Much obliged
Thanks very much Peter.

Hi,

The site is:
www.homepriceguide.com.au

A sample page with data can be seen at:
http://www.homepriceguide.com.au/sn...?action=view&suburbORpostcode=6153&source=apm

The only thing that changes is the postcode so the next page in line will
be:
http://www.homepriceguide.com.au/sn...?action=view&suburbORpostcode=6154&source=apm

etc etc

What I'm trying to do is to extract price info and save it to a file where
each record has the postcode as its ID. Last year I wrote a script that
went
through the site and gathered the data for me and dumped the results in a
file. Unfortunately it's gone walking somewhere. Can someone pls remind me
which module is best to be used here (I'm mainly concerned with the
parsing
side right now)? I have not coded for <> 12mths so I'm a bit rusty now but
hopefully it will all come back.

Start with the LWP set of modules....

--
Wyzelli
{{${^_sub}=sub{scalar reverse shift}}{$_={${^_reverse}=>
{${^_scalar}=>{${^_shift}=>{${^_sub}=>{${^_print}=>{}}}}}}
}{s{.*}{rekcaH lreP rehtona tsuJ}}{print("@{[&${^_sub}($_)]}")}}

 

[dan baker]

What I'm trying to do is to extract price info

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try module LWP::Simple and get() to grab the source... then extract
what you want....

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