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Perl & Lwp

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: O'Reilly/ Shroff Publishers & Distributors PVT.LTD. 2010Description: xv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9789350230169
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 005.133 BUR-P
Contents:
1. Introduction to Web Automation -- 2. Web Basics -- 3. The LWP Class Model -- 4. URLs -- 5. Forms -- 6. Simple HTML Processing with Regular Expressions -- 7. HTML Processing with Tokens -- 8. Tokenizing Walkthrough -- 9. HTML Processing with Trees -- 10. Modifying HTML with Trees -- 11. Cookies, Authentication, and Advanced Requests -- 12. Spiders -- A. LWP Modules -- B. HTTP Status Codes -- C. Common MIME Types -- D. Language Tags -- E. Common Content Encodings -- F. ASCII Table -- G. User's View of Object-Oriented Modules.
Summary: "Perl & LWP includes many step-by-step examples that show how to apply the various techniques. Programs to extract information from the web sites of BBC News, AltaVista, ABEBooks.com, and the Weather Underground, to name a few, are explained in detail, so that you understand how and why they work." "Perl programmers who want to automate and mine the Web can pick up this book and be immediately productive. Written by a contributor to LWP, with a foreword by one of LWP's creators, Perl & LWP is the authoritative guide to this powerful and popular toolkit."--Jacket.
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Book Book Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 005.13/3 BUR-P (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available DCB2613

"Fetching Web pages, parsing HTML, writing spiders & more"--Cover.

1. Introduction to Web Automation -- 2. Web Basics -- 3. The LWP Class Model -- 4. URLs -- 5. Forms -- 6. Simple HTML Processing with Regular Expressions -- 7. HTML Processing with Tokens -- 8. Tokenizing Walkthrough -- 9. HTML Processing with Trees -- 10. Modifying HTML with Trees -- 11. Cookies, Authentication, and Advanced Requests -- 12. Spiders -- A. LWP Modules -- B. HTTP Status Codes -- C. Common MIME Types -- D. Language Tags -- E. Common Content Encodings -- F. ASCII Table -- G. User's View of Object-Oriented Modules.

"Perl & LWP includes many step-by-step examples that show how to apply the various techniques. Programs to extract information from the web sites of BBC News, AltaVista, ABEBooks.com, and the Weather Underground, to name a few, are explained in detail, so that you understand how and why they work." "Perl programmers who want to automate and mine the Web can pick up this book and be immediately productive. Written by a contributor to LWP, with a foreword by one of LWP's creators, Perl & LWP is the authoritative guide to this powerful and popular toolkit."--Jacket.

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