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A special Uplink online-only Web scraping primer, created for the May-June 2007 issue.

The basics of

Web Scraping

Audio tips for Web scraping

Linda J. Johnson
CAR Coordinator, Lexington Herald-Leader


John Perry
The Center for Public Integrity

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Copyright 2007 Investigative Reporters and Editors

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Definitions & acronyms:
  • CPAN
    Comprehensive Perl Archive Network is a good place to start to gain a further understanding of Perl
  • Module:
    A module, also known as a Perl Module, ends in the file extension ".pm"and is a self-contained body of code that a Perl program can use.
  • PPM
    Perl Package Manager is used to manage modules on Microsoft Windows.