Scraping HTML Pages with Perl

Peter Rukavina

Here’s an example, from Ben Hammersley, of using Perl to scrape an HTML page (in this case the FedEx tracking page) to grab data and spit it back out as RSS. Might be a good starting point for others, as he includes the source.

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