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Id: 89186
Status: new
Priority: 0/
Queue: Web-Scraper

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Subject: The scrape method does not check whether $stuff was actually passed in
It's easy to called $scraper->scrape() and get bit by weird bugs, since the subroutine neither checks that $stuff is passed in nor does something that would cause it to error out in that case. So, we get only a vague warning of "use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry" within build_tree(), but the execution carries on which could lead to many subtle bugs. This just needs a single line check at the beginning of 'scrape' to verify that $stuff has a defined value.