NAMES Scrapar - Just another web scraping framework DESCRIPTION This module helps you write scrapers in a more clean and efficient way. It is mainly divided into 3 parts: Backend, Extractor, and Data Handler. - A backend is a module that fetches and calls extractors and handles data by calling data handlers. - An extractor is a text processing module that extracts information from a text string. - A data handler takes the extracted information and renders it in different ways. USAGE To run the scraper is very easy. You just need to call the main scraper with a backend. # If you install Scrapar in system directories, you just run scrape.pl % scrape.pl -b Backend # If you are running in the untarred directory, you just run it # from the bin directory % ./bin/scrape.pl -b Backend AUTHOR Copyright 2009 Yung-chung Lin All rights reserved.