Perl & LWP Sean M. Burke

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• Perl & LWP
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  • A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
  • Foreword
  • Preface
    • Audience for This Book
    • Structure of This Book
    • Order of Chapters
    • Important Standards Documents
    • Conventions Used in This Book
    • Comments & Questions
    • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction to Web Automation
    • 1.1. The Web as Data Source
      • 1.1.1. Screen Scraping
      • 1.1.2. Brittleness
      • 1.1.3. Web Services
    • 1.2. History of LWP
    • 1.3. Installing LWP
      • 1.3.1. Installing LWP from the CPAN Shell
        • 1.3.1.1. Configuring
        • 1.3.1.2. Obtaining help
        • 1.3.1.3. Installing LWP
      • 1.3.2. Installing LWP Manually
        • 1.3.2.1. Download distributions
        • 1.3.2.2. Unpack and configure
        • 1.3.2.3. Make, test, and install
    • 1.4. Words of Caution
      • 1.4.1. Network and Server Load
      • 1.4.2. Copyright
      • 1.4.3. Acceptable Use
    • 1.5. LWP in Action
      • 1.5.1. The Object-Oriented Interface
      • 1.5.2. Forms
      • 1.5.3. Parsing HTML
      • 1.5.4. Authentication
  • 2. Web Basics
    • 2.1. URLs
    • 2.2. An HTTP Transaction
      • 2.2.1. Request
      • 2.2.2. Response
    • 2.3. LWP::Simple
      • 2.3.1. Basic Document Fetch
      • 2.3.2. Fetch and Store
      • 2.3.3. Fetch and Print
      • 2.3.4. Previewing with HEAD
    • 2.4. Fetching Documents Without LWP::Simple
    • 2.5. Example: AltaVista
    • 2.6. HTTP POST
    • 2.7. Example: Babelfish
  • 3. The LWP Class Model
    • 3.1. The Basic Classes
    • 3.2. Programming with LWP Classes
    • 3.3. Inside the do_GET and do_POST Functions
    • 3.4. User Agents
      • 3.4.1. Connection Parameters
      • 3.4.2. Request Parameters
      • 3.4.3. Protocols
      • 3.4.4. Redirection
      • 3.4.5. Authentication
      • 3.4.6. Proxies
      • 3.4.7. Request Methods
        • 3.4.7.1. Saving response content to a file
        • 3.4.7.2. Sending response content to a callback
        • 3.4.7.3. Mirroring a URL to a file
      • 3.4.8. Advanced Methods
    • 3.5. HTTP::Response Objects
      • 3.5.1. Status Line
      • 3.5.2. Content
      • 3.5.3. Headers
      • 3.5.4. Expiration Times
      • 3.5.5. Base for Relative URLs
      • 3.5.6. Debugging
    • 3.6. LWP Classes: Behind the Scenes
  • 4. URLs
    • 4.1. Parsing URLs
      • 4.1.1. Constructors
      • 4.1.2. Output
      • 4.1.3. Comparison
      • 4.1.4. Components of a URL
      • 4.1.5. Queries
    • 4.2. Relative URLs
    • 4.3. Converting Absolute URLs to Relative
    • 4.4. Converting Relative URLs to Absolute
  • 5. Forms
    • 5.1. Elements of an HTML Form
    • 5.2. LWP and GET Requests
      • 5.2.1. GETting Fixed URLs
      • 5.2.2. GETting a query_form( ) URL
    • 5.3. Automating Form Analysis
    • 5.4. Idiosyncrasies of HTML Forms
      • 5.4.1. Hidden Elements
      • 5.4.2. Text Elements
      • 5.4.3. Password Elements
      • 5.4.4. Checkboxes
      • 5.4.5. Radio Buttons
      • 5.4.6. Submit Buttons
      • 5.4.7. Image Buttons
      • 5.4.8. Reset Buttons
      • 5.4.9. File Selection Elements
      • 5.4.10. Textarea Elements
      • 5.4.11. Select Elements and Option Elements
    • 5.5. POST Example: License Plates
      • 5.5.1. The Form
      • 5.5.2. Use formpairs.pl
      • 5.5.3. Translating This into LWP
    • 5.6. POST Example: ABEBooks.com
      • 5.6.1. The Form
      • 5.6.2. Translating This into LWP
      • 5.6.3. Adding Features
      • 5.6.4. Generalizing the Program
    • 5.7. File Uploads
    • 5.8. Limits on Forms
  • 6. Simple HTML Processing with Regular Expressions
    • 6.1. Automating Data Extraction
    • 6.2. Regular Expression Techniques
      • 6.2.1. Anchor Your Match
      • 6.2.2. Whitespace
      • 6.2.3. Embedded Newlines
      • 6.2.4. Minimal and Greedy Matches
      • 6.2.5. Capture
      • 6.2.6. Repeated Matches
      • 6.2.7. Develop from Components
      • 6.2.8. Use Multiple Steps
    • 6.3. Troubleshooting
    • 6.4. When Regular Expressions Arent Enough
    • 6.5. Example: Extracting Linksfrom a Bookmark File
    • 6.6. Example: Extracting Linksfrom Arbitrary HTML
    • 6.7. Example: Extracting Temperatures from Weather Underground
  • 7. HTML Processing with Tokens
    • 7.1. HTML as Tokens
    • 7.2. Basic HTML::TokeParser Use
      • 7.2.1. Start-Tag Tokens
      • 7.2.2. End-Tag Tokens
      • 7.2.3. Text Tokens
      • 7.2.4. Comment Tokens
      • 7.2.5. Markup Declaration Tokens
      • 7.2.6. Processing Instruction Tokens
    • 7.3. Individual Tokens
      • 7.3.1. Checking Image Tags
      • 7.3.2. HTML Filters
    • 7.4. Token Sequences
      • 7.4.1. Example: BBC Headlines
      • 7.4.2. Translating the Problem into Code
      • 7.4.3. Bundling into a Program
    • 7.5. More HTML::TokeParser Methods
      • 7.5.1. The get_text( ) Method
      • 7.5.2. The get_text( ) Method with Parameters
      • 7.5.3. The get_trimmed_text( ) Method
      • 7.5.4. The get_tag( ) Method
        • 7.5.4.1. Start-tags
        • 7.5.4.2. End-tags
      • 7.5.5. The get_tag( ) Method with Parameters
    • 7.6. Using Extracted Text
  • 8. Tokenizing Walkthrough
    • 8.1. The Problem
    • 8.2. Getting the Data
    • 8.3. Inspecting the HTML
    • 8.4. First Code
    • 8.5. Narrowing In
    • 8.6. Rewrite for Features
      • 8.6.1. Debuggability
      • 8.6.2. Images and Applets
      • 8.6.3. Link Text
      • 8.6.4. Live Data
    • 8.7. Alternatives
  • 9. HTML Processing with Trees
    • 9.1. Introduction to Trees
    • 9.2. HTML::TreeBuilder
      • 9.2.1. Constructors
      • 9.2.2. Parse Options
      • 9.2.3. Parsing
      • 9.2.4. Cleanup
    • 9.3. Processing
      • 9.3.1. Methods for Searching the Tree
      • 9.3.2. Attributes of a Node
      • 9.3.3. Traversing
    • 9.4. Example: BBC News
    • 9.5. Example: Fresh Air
  • 10. Modifying HTML with Trees
    • 10.1. Changing Attributes
      • 10.1.1. Whitespace
      • 10.1.2. Other HTML Options
    • 10.2. Deleting Images
    • 10.3. Detaching and Reattaching
      • 10.3.1. The detach_content( ) Method
      • 10.3.2. Constraints
    • 10.4. Attaching in Another Tree
      • 10.4.1. Retaining Comments
      • 10.4.2. Accessing Comments
      • 10.4.3. Attaching Content
    • 10.5. Creating New Elements
      • 10.5.1. Literals
      • 10.5.2. New Nodes from Lists
  • 11. Cookies, Authentication,and Advanced Requests
    • 11.1. Cookies
      • 11.1.1. Enabling Cookies
      • 11.1.2. Loading Cookies from a File
      • 11.1.3. Saving Cookies to a File
      • 11.1.4. Cookies and the New York Times Site
    • 11.2. Adding Extra Request Header Lines
      • 11.2.1. Pretending to Be Netscape
      • 11.2.2. Referer
    • 11.3. Authentication
      • 11.3.1. Comparing Cookies with Basic Authentication
      • 11.3.2. Authenticating via LWP
      • 11.3.3. Security
    • 11.4. An HTTP Authentication Example:The Unicode Mailing Archive
  • 12. Spiders
    • 12.1. Types of Web-Querying Programs
    • 12.2. A User Agent for Robots
    • 12.3. Example: A Link-Checking Spider
      • 12.3.1. The Basic Spider Logic
      • 12.3.2. Overall Design in the Spider
      • 12.3.3. HEAD Response Processing
      • 12.3.4. Redirects
      • 12.3.5. Link Extraction
      • 12.3.6. Fleshing Out the URL Scheduling
      • 12.3.7. The Rest of the Code
    • 12.4. Ideas for Further Expansion
  • A. LWP Modules
  • B. HTTP Status Codes
    • B.1. 100s: Informational
    • B.2. 200s: Successful
    • B.3. 300s: Redirection
    • B.4. 400s: Client Errors
    • B.5. 500s: Server Errors
  • C. Common MIME Types
  • D. Language Tags
  • E. Common Content Encodings
  • F. ASCII Table
  • G. User's View of Object-Oriented Modules
    • G.1. A User's View of Object-Oriented Modules
    • G.2. Modules and Their Functional Interfaces
    • G.3. Modules with Object-Oriented Interfaces
    • G.4. What Can You Do with Objects?
    • G.5. What's in an Object?
    • G.6. What Is an Object Value?
    • G.7. So Why Do Some Modules Use Objects?
    • G.8. The Gory Details
  • Index
  • Colophon
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