Re: Recommended way to download and parse web pages?

[Gilles <codecomplete@...>]

On Fri, 15 May 2015 21:56:51 +0000, Thijs Schreijer
<thijs@thijsschreijer.nl> wrote:
>I think you would need a 'fetching' and a 'parsing' element. For fetching you could use Copas [1], which has recently gained async client support for http(s) (luasec required for the 's' part). See this example [2] for fetching multiple pages simultaneously/async.
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>For parsing; depends on the complexity. If it's simple, use lua patterns. Otherwise the proposed lua-gumbo seems a good fit (just read the readme, have no experience with it).
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>Thijs
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>[1] https://github.com/keplerproject/copas 
>[2] https://github.com/keplerproject/copas/blob/master/tests/testlimit.lua

Thanks for the infos. Are those available as LuaRocks? It's easier to
install for newbies.

"lua patterns" = regex?