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:
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 just 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, and with a foreword by one of LWP's creators, Perl
& LWP is the authoritative guide to this powerful and popular toolkit.
