Web Scraping with Zydeco
So I like to keep local copies of my blogs.perl.org blog posts as Atom entries, but noticed yesterday that I had a few gaps in my collection. The Atom feeds offered by blogs.perl.org only have the most recent articles though, so I decided to write a quick script to scrape the posts. Luckily, I managed to get a table containing the URLs for each post I needed, so I didn't need to bother with following links to find the pages; I just needed to grab the content from them.
I thought some people might find the code interesting especially for its use of lazy attributes. This is one of those "it only needs to be used once, so making the code maintainable isn't important" kinds of projects, do bear that in mind. I've cleaned up the whitespace and added comments for this blog post, but other than that, it's just a quickly hacked together script.
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Why the :: in front of class names? Please point me at the relevant docs.
Zydeco prefixes your class names with the package name. The :: in front of class names will avoid this.>
This is explained with an example in this documentation.
Thanks for sharing this: it helps to have a real life example that go beyond the Foo::Bar app.
Zydeco treats class names and role names as relative to the container package unless you prefix them with "::".
Relevant docs.