While pondering some web-scraping today, I found some circa 2006 references to
FEAR::API. I checked CPAN and it is no longer there. The author, Xern, is still active. Does anyone know what happened to it?
Does it still exist, only now with a new name? Has it been abandonded? Removed? other? Replaced by something cooler? (if so, what is it?)
DESCRIPTION:
FEAR::API is a tool that helps reduce your time
creating site scraping scripts and help you do it
in a much more elegant way. FEAR::API combines
many strong and powerful features from various
CPAN modules, such as LWP::UserAgent, WWW::Mechanize,
Template::Extract, Encode, HTML::Parser, etc. and
digests them into a deeper Zen.
- 2006 perl.com article on FEAR::API by the module author:
- http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/06/01/fear-api.html
- Author's page at cpan:
- http://search.cpan.org/~xern/
- Backpan:
- http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/X/XE/XERN/
- Fresh Ports package:
- http://www.freshports.org/www/p5-FEAR-API/
- Author's Twitter stream
- http://twitter.com/xern
Update:
Xern replied:
@spazm it was pulled off long time ago. bad design. need to come up with a better one.