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WWW-Scraper-ISBN (0.25)

Don't bother with this - it needs the drivers but most of them don't work any more. I needed to scrape some ISBNs so I tried this out, but I ended up writing a simple scraper "by hand" (i.e. get the page with LWP::Simple, then chop it up to get the data) without using this module.

The problem is that as the web page formats change with time, if nobody updates the drivers for each ISBN data site, then they can't be used any more. At the moment nobody seems to have maintained most of the drivers for three or four years, so best not to use this thing unless someone starts maintaining the drivers again.

BKB - 2008-05-08 06:21:15
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