Revision history for Perl extension Web::Scraper

0.34 Thu Feb 24 09:35:12 PST 2011

• Skip xml_simple.t if LibXML is not there (omega)

0.33 Thu Feb 17 09:12:55 PST 2011

• Remove failing invalid XPath tests

0.32 Wed Feb 3 22:13:01 PST 2010

• Removes poking around charset and LWP's decoded_content (Thanks to flatwhatson)
• More docs (jshirley)

0.31 Sun Jul 19 00:43:54 PDT 2009

• Use new LWP's content_charset method instead of HTTP::Response::Encoding (Thanks to hanekomu)

0.30 Wed Jul 8 15:47:21 PDT 2009

• No warnings when use()d multiple times in the same package

0.29 Wed Jul 8 13:40:14 PDT 2009

• Adds Web::Scraper::LibXML which uses HTML::TreeBuilder::LibXML (without the replace_original hack)

0.28 Sat Mar 28 14:31:45 PDT 2009

• Call ->eof when parsing with HTML::TreeBuilder (Thanks to Tokuhiro Matsuno)

0.27 Tue Mar 24 12:09:04 PDT 2009

• Added tests to use HTML::TreeBuilder::LibXML (Thanks to Tokuhiro Matsuno)

0.26 Thu Jan 15 11:37:56 PST 2009

• Fixed an error message when GET request fails

0.25 Sun Jan 11 13:36:44 PST 2009

• scrape() now accepts HTTP::Response as well for Remedie/Plagger
• repository moved to github http://github.com/miyagawa/web-scraper/tree/master

0.24 Sun Nov 25 15:58:38 PST 2007

• Support duck typing in filter args to take object that has 'filter' method This could give Web::Scraper::Filter::Pipe a better interface (Thanks to hanekomu and tokuhirom)

0.23 Sat Nov 24 17:21:14 PST 2007

• Upped Web::Scraper dependency
• Skip & test until HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath fixes it
• removed eg/search-cpan.pl

0.22 Wed Oct 17 17:51:54 PDT 2007

• 's' on scraper shell now prints to pager (e.g. less) if PAGER is set

0.21_01 Thu Oct 4 01:05:00 PDT 2007

• Added an experimental filter support (Thanks to hirose31, tokuhirom and Yappo for brainstorming)

0.21 Wed Oct 3 10:37:13 PDT 2007

• Bumped up HTML::TreeBuilder dependency to fix 12_html.t issues [rt.cpan.org #29733]

0.20 Wed Oct 3 00:28:13 PDT 2007

• Fixed a bug where URI is not absolutized with a hash reference value
• Added eg/jp-playstation-store.pl

0.19 Thu Sep 20 22:42:30 PDT 2007

• Try to get HTML encoding from META tags as well, when there's no charset value in HTTP response header.

0.18 Thu Sep 20 19:49:11 PDT 2007

• Fixed a bug where URI is not absolutized when scraper is nested
• Use as_XML not as_HTML in 'RAW'

0.17 Wed Sep 19 19:12:25 PDT 2007

• Reverted Term::Encoding support since it causes segfaults (double utf-8 encoding) in some environment

0.16 Tue Sep 18 04:48:47 PDT 2007

• Support 'RAW' and 'TEXT' for TextNode object
• Call Term::Encoding from scraper shell if installed

0.15 Sat Sep 15 21:28:10 PDT 2007

• Call env_proxy in scraper CLI
• Added $Web::Scraper::UserAgent and $scraper->user_agent accessor to deal with UserAgent object
• Don't escape non-ASCII characters into &#xXXXX; in scraper shell 's' and WARN

0.14 Fri Sep 14 16:06:20 PDT 2007

• Fix bin/scraper to work with older Term::ReadLine. (Thanks to Tina Müller [RT:29079])
• Now link elements like img@src and a@href are automatically converted to absolute URI using the current URI as a base. Only effective when you do $s->scrape(URI) or $s->scrape(\$html, URI)
• Added 'HTML' and its alias 'RAW' to get the HTML chunk inside the tag process "script", "code" => 'RAW'; Handy if you want the raw HTML code inside <script> or <style>. (Thanks to charsbar for the suggestion)

0.13 Sun Sep 2 17:11:08 PDT 2007

• Added 'c' and 'c all' command to scraper to generate the code to replay the session
• Added 'WARN' as a shortcut to sub { warn $->asHTML } on scraper shell like: process "a", WARN; # print 'a' elements as HTML
• Added 'search-cpan.pl' and 'rel-tag.pl' to eg/

0.12 Thu Aug 30 02:39:44 PDT 2007

• Added 's' command to scraper to get the HTML source
• You can use $tree variable to deal with the HTML::Element object in scraper shell
• Give a graceful error message if the given Selector/XPath doesn't compile
• Give a better error when number of args in process() seems wrong

0.11 Tue Aug 28 02:50:01 PDT 2007

• Supported hash-reference in process values, like process "a", "people[]", { link => '@href', name => 'TEXT' }; See t/09-process_hash.t for its usage.

0.10 Mon Aug 27 00:53:51 PDT 2007

• result now returns the entire stash if called without keys
• added bin/scraper CLI

0.09 Wed Aug 15 10:51:14 PDT 2007

• remove Devel::Leak use from tests

0.08 Tue Aug 14 13:25:16 PDT 2007

• Call $tree->delete after the callback to avoid memory leaks by TreeBuilder. (Thanks to k.daiba for the report)

0.07 Sat May 12 16:23:51 PDT 2007

• Updated dependencies for HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath

0.06 Sat May 12 15:47:27 PDT 2007

• Now don't use decoded_content to work with new H::R::Encoding

0.05 Wed May 9 18:21:22 PDT 2007

• Added (less DSL-ish) Web::Scraper->define(sub { ... }) syntax
• Fixed bug where the module dies if there's no encoding found in HTTP response headers
• Added more examples in eg/
• When we get value using callback, pass HTML::Element object as $_, in addition to $_[0] (Suggested by Matt S. Trout)
• If the expression (1st argument to process()) starts with "/", it's treated as a direct XPath and no Selector-to-XPath conversion is done.

0.04 Wed May 9 00:55:32 PDT 2007

• API CHANGE Now scraper {} returns Web::Scraper object and not closure. You should call ->scrape() to get the response back. (Suggested by Marcus Ramberg)

  I loved the code returning closure, but this is more compatible to scrapi.rb API and hopefully less confusing to people.

0.03 Tue May 8 23:04:13 PDT 2007

• use 'TEXT' rather than 'content' to grab text from element to be more compatible with scrapi
• Added unit tests using Test::Base
• Refactored internal code for easier reading
• chained callbacks are now passed HTML::Element, not HTML, to avoid double HTML parsing
• Implemented callbacks (iterator) API
• Added 'process_first' to be compatible with scrapi

0.02 Tue May 8 20:03:37 PDT 2007

• Added dependencies to Makefile.PL

0.01 Tue May 8 04:05:59 2007

• original version