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tectonic on Aug 28, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: My project: CSVGet -- Get structured data from sit...

Use http://selectorgadget.com to help make the selectors, too.

vbar on Aug 29, 2009 | [–]

But why mess with the selectors by hand? http://search.cpan.org/~vbar/HTML-ListScraper-0.05/ can discover the structure automatically (well, sometimes :-) - some pages just aren't regular enough, but it does work on HN, for example)...

hadley on Aug 29, 2009 | [–]

Wow - fantastic!

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