This document introduces the Web::Scraper module for Perl, which provides a more robust and maintainable way to scrape web pages compared to regular expressions. Web::Scraper uses a DSL to select elements and extract data via CSS or XPath selectors. It returns structured data like URLs, text, and name-value pairs from selected elements. The document provides examples of scraping timestamps, links, and lists of sites to demonstrate how Web::Scraper works and its advantages over traditional scraping with regular expressions.

1. Practical Web Scraping with Web::Scraper Tatsuhiko Miyagawa [email_address] Six Apart, Ltd. / Shibuya Perl Mongers SF.pm Lightning Talk

5. <td>Current <strong>UTC</strong> (or GMT/Zulu)-time used: <strong id=&quot;ctu&quot;>Monday, August 27, 2007 at 12:49:46</strong> <br />

6. <td>Current <strong>UTC</strong> (or GMT/Zulu)-time used: <strong id=&quot;ctu&quot;>Monday, August 27, 2007 at 12:49:46</strong> <br /> > perl -MLWP::Simple -le '$c = get(&quot;http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/&quot;); $c =~ m@<strong id=&quot;ctu&quot;>(.*?)</strong>@ and print $1' Monday, August 27, 2007 at 12:49:46

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9. WWW::Search::Ebay 2.231

14. <span class=&quot;message&quot;>I &hearts; Shibuya</span> > perl –e '$c =~ m@<span class=&quot;message&quot;>(.*?)</span>@ and print $1' I &hearts; Shibuya

24. <ul class=&quot;sites&quot;> <li><a href=&quot;http://vienna.openguides.org/&quot;>OpenGuides</a></li> <li><a href=&quot;http://vienna.yapceurope.org/&quot;>YAPC::Europe</a></li> </ul>