Re: Why doesn't my scraper work?

[talexb]

My best guess is that there's some Javascript involved, whch makes things a lot more complicated when scraping is involved.

You should also keep in mind that scraping a site like http://www.cbssports.com might be against their Terms Of Use. If there's an API that you can use instead, all the better.

[jdlev]

Is there a way for HTML TableExtract to look up a table with the attribute "class = etc"? I've tried that before and it seems it doesn't like looking for a class name?

[tangent]

it seems it doesn't like looking for a class name

In what way does it not like it? As long as you initialise the module with the attributes you want it should not have a problem:

my $te = HTML::TableExtract->new( attribs=> { class=>'class-name' } );
$te->parse($html_string);
for my $ts ($te->tables) {
    print "Table with class 'class-name' found\n";
}

[jdlev]

For others wondering I figured it out by using WWW::Mechanize as opposed to LWP::Simple when fetching the original data. It's at least saving the full code from the page now by using www::mechanize.