SYNOPSIS

The base of your reader.

DESCRIPTION

Reader:

Reader is described as the this that will read (parse) the information (pages).

So the reader parses documents. The reader holds all the logic used to crawl a web page.. it knows all the rules to get the content transformed into objects.

After the reader makes its job, it is suposed to pass the information into the Writer, which will then write to a file or write over a network, etc.

   ____________                   __________                   ___________
   | Internet | <<=============== | Reader |                   |  Writer |
   |__________| ===============>> |________| ===============>> |_________|
                reader requests                                 The Writer:
                information and                                 - saves
                parse.Then send                                 - send email
                to the Writer                                   - save stats

ATTRIBUTES

robot

passed_key_values

*** will be renamed to request_storage or something like that.

holds values that are passed between pages navigation.

ie: im collecting data for an object, and, there is some stuff on page#1 and some other stuff on page#2 and #3. Then i can use passed_key_values to pass keys and values to my next page.

headers

holds the current session headers

METHODS

append

shortcut for $self->robot->queue->append

prepend

shortcut for $self->robot->queue->prepend

current_page

shortcut for $self->robot->queue->prepend

tree

shortcut for $self->robot->parser->tree

xml

shortcut for $self->robot->parser->xml