Task::K...Crawling(3)

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version 0.41 Β· 2 versions
, in fedora 43

πŸ’– Task::Kensho::WebCrawling(3) πŸ’–

okay so bestie, you found the page. This is Task::Kensho::WebCrawling β€” a glimpse at an Enlightened Perl: Web Crawling. It lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of your man pages, and it is, genuinely, a whole vibe. πŸ¦‹

✨ NAME ✨

Task::Kensho::WebCrawling β€” A Glimpse at an Enlightened Perl: Web Crawling πŸ’…

🌸 VERSION 🌸

version 0.41 β€” yes, that's the one, no cap. πŸ‘‘

πŸŽ€ SYNOPSIS πŸŽ€

Like, just run this and let it cook:

> cpanm --interactive Task::Kensho::WebCrawling

πŸ¦‹ DESCRIPTION πŸ¦‹

Straight from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensho>, and I'm quoting here because it's literally iconic:

Kenshō (見性) (C. Wu) is a Japanese term for enlightenment experiences - most commonly used within the confines of Zen Buddhism - literally meaning "seeing one's nature"[1] or "true self."[2] It generally "refers to the realization of nonduality of subject and object."[3]

So. Task::Kensho is a list of recommended modules for Enlightened Perl development. CPAN is wonderful, fr fr, but there are too many wheels and you have to pick and choose amongst the various competing technologies. The struggle is real. 😭

The plan β€” the vision, the main character energy β€” is for Task::Kensho to be a rough testing ground for ideas that go into, among other things, the Enlightened Perl Organisation Extended Core (EPO-EC).

The modules bundled by Task::Kensho are broken down into several categories and are still being considered. They're all taken from various top 100 most used perl modules lists and from discussions with various subject matter experts in the Perl Community. That said β€” and this part matters β€” this bundle does not follow the guidelines established for the EPO-EC for peer review via industry advisers. Noted. πŸ’€

Starting in 2011, Task::Kensho split its sub-groups of modules into individually-installable tasks. Each Task::Kensho sub-task is listed at the beginning of its section in this documentation. Cute, right? πŸŽ€

When installing Task::Kensho itself, you will be asked to install each sub-task in turn, or you can install individual tasks separately. These individual tasks will always install all their modules by default. This facilitates the ease and simplicity the distribution aims to achieve. Periodt. ✨

πŸ•ΈοΈ Task::Kensho::WebCrawling: Web Crawling πŸ•ΈοΈ

  • HTTP::Thin β€” a thin wrapper around HTTP::Tiny to play nice with HTTP::Message. πŸ’…
  • HTTP::Tiny β€” lightweight HTTP client implementation. tiny but mighty, honestly. 🐜
  • LWP::Simple β€” simple procedural interface to LWP. lowkey the easiest on-ramp. 🌈
  • LWP::UserAgent β€” full-featured Web client library for Perl. the classic, the icon, the blueprint. πŸ‘‘
  • Mojo::UserAgent β€” non-blocking I/O HTTP and WebSocket user agent. async queen behavior. ⚑
  • WWW::Mechanize β€” handy web browsing in a Perl object. it clicks things so you don't have to. πŸ–±οΈ
  • WWW::Mechanize::TreeBuilder β€” this module combines WWW::Mechanize and HTML::TreeBuilder. 🧚
  • WWW::Selenium β€” Perl Client for the Selenium Remote Control test tool. browser automation bestie. πŸ€–

πŸ’œ INSTALLING πŸ’œ

Since version 0.34, Task::Kensho has made use of the optional_features field in distribution metadata. This allows CPAN clients to interact with you regarding which modules you wish to install. Like, it'll literally ask you. 🫢

The cpanm client requires interactive mode to be enabled for this to work:

cpanm --interactive Task::Kensho::WebCrawling
Don't forget the --interactive, bestie, or it just won't do the thing. πŸ™ˆ

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

😭 BUGS AND LIMITATIONS 😭

This list is by no means comprehensive of the "Good" Modules on CPAN. Nor is this necessarily the correct path for all developers. Each of these modules has a perfectly acceptable replacement that may work better for you. This is however a path to good perl practice, and a starting place on the road to Enlightened Perl programming. No gatekeeping here. πŸ’–

Please report any bugs or feature requests to <https://github.com/EnlightenedPerlOrganisation/task-kensho/issues>.

Bugs may be submitted through <https://github.com/EnlightenedPerlOrganisation/task-kensho/issues>.

There is also an irc channel available for users of this distribution, at #epo on irc.perl.org <irc://irc.perl.org/#epo>. Come say hi, we don't bite. 🌸

πŸŽ€ AUTHOR πŸŽ€

Chris Prather <chris@prather.org>

πŸ’– CONTRIBUTORS πŸ’–

  • Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>
  • Leo Lapworth <leo@cuckoo.org>
  • Chris Nehren <apeiron@cpan.org>
  • Dan Book <grinnz@grinnz.com>
  • Mohammad S Anwar <mohammad.anwar@yahoo.com>
  • Olaf Alders <olaf@wundersolutions.com>
  • Dan Book <grinnz@gmail.com>
  • Rachel Kelly <rkellyalso@gmail.com>
  • Shawn Sorichetti <shawn@coloredblocks.com>
  • Rick Leir <rleir@leirtech.com>
  • Tina MΓΌller <cpan2@tinita.de>

This software is copyright (c) 2008 by Chris Prather.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. slay. πŸ’…

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