[GLENNWOOD - Sun Nov 7 17:22:27 2004]:
Show quoted text> Sorry about the *late* response - I lost a link in my email server
> chain
> from CPAN last year. After fixing it, I didn't realize I wouldn't be
> recieving email from rt.cpan.org, yet.
>
> Anyway, this seems an odd response. I've tried to keep Scraper
> compatible with numerous usage parameters, but looks like I failed
> here.
> My next step with Scraper will involve a complete re-architecturing (a
> major bit of work) that will make parameterization more transparent
> (and
> controlled). Unfortunately, I don't think I'll fix this one in this
> version.
>
> Take a look at eg/Scraper.pl for examples of how to make this work by
> instantiating the Scraper first, then adding search criteria. I hope
> you
> can gain some benefit from Scraper in its current version - any
> feedback
> about your experience and difficulties will help me do better in the
> next version.
My fix was not using WWW::Scraper but using a module made by myself
using WWW::Mechanize
I think you should be using WWW::Mechanize to Scrap sites, since it's a
lot of work put there and any fixes or API aditions to that module
should be more than welcome.
Show quoted text> [guest - Sun Jun 13 17:34:19 2004]:
> > I'm getting the following error:
> > Odd number of elements in anonymous hash at
> > /usr/share/perl5/WWW/Scraper.pm line 120.
> >
> > with the following program:
> > #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> > use strict;
> > use WWW::Scraper;
> > use Data::Dumper;
> > my $search = new WWW::Scraper('Google', 'linux');
> > Dumper(\$search);
> >
> >
> > What could be the problem?
> > Do you know if WWW::Scraper works with current packages?
> > I'm using perl 5.8.4 with all the modules of Debian Unstable
> > and Scraper-3.05
> > Is Scraper still maintained?
