#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; #-- #-- Script: SETIStat.pl #-- Purpose: Displays the information for the SETI@Home PM group #-- #-- Author: Robert(Bob) Smith #-- Date: December 11, 2001 #-- #-- Wish List: Add error handling if the requested HTML page is not retrieved #-- #-- Rev Hist: 00.00.a 2001-12-11 rws Initial version #-- #-- Notes: This script was created as a learning example for HTML::TableExtract #-- #-- Use modules use HTML::TableExtract; use HTTP::Request::Common; use LWP::UserAgent; #-- Define constants use constant VERSION => '00.00.a'; use constant FIELD_DELIM => ','; use constant SETI_URL => 'http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_86606.html'; use constant ERR => { 'ok' => 0, }; #-- Define variables my $gExtractedTable; # Table extracted from the HTML my $gHTMLPage; # Retrieved HTML page my $gName; # Member's name my $gRank; # Member's ranking my $gRow; # Pointer to rows in extracted tables my $gTable; # Pointer to extracted tables my $gUserAgent; # LWP::UserAgent #-- Retrieve the HTML page $gUserAgent = LWP::UserAgent->new; $gHTMLPage = $gUserAgent->request(GET SETI_URL); #-- Extract the table #-- #-- Note: TableExtract will handle tables nested within tables (outermost table is depth==0) #-- as well as multiple tables within the same HTML document (first table is count==0). #-- Since the information I wish to extract is not nested, depth will be 0, and since #-- it is the second table on the page (the first table is the group description, #-- web site, number of members, etc...,) the count will be 1. #-- $gExtractedTable = HTML::TableExtract->new(depth => 0, count => 1); $gExtractedTable->parse($gHTMLPage->content); #-- Display information foreach $gTable ($gExtractedTable->table_states) { foreach $gRow ($gTable->rows) { #-- Print data row if ($$gRow[0]=~/^(\d+)\)\s*/) { ($gRank, $gName)=($1,$'); $gName=$` if $gName=~/[\s\n]+$/; $$gRow[2]=$' if $$gRow[2]=~/^\s+/; print $gRank, FIELD_DELIM, $gName, FIELD_DELIM, $$gRow[1], FIELD_DELIM, $$gRow[2], FIELD_DELIM, $$gRow[3], "\n"; } #-- Print header row else { $$gRow[1]=~tr/\n/ /; $$gRow[3]=~tr/\n/ /; print 'Rank', FIELD_DELIM, $$gRow[0], FIELD_DELIM, $$gRow[1], FIELD_DELIM, $$gRow[2], FIELD_DELIM, $$gRow[3], "\n"; } } } #-- Exit exit(ERR->{ok}); #-- End of script