How can I select from only one table with Web::Scraper?

Question

I want to extract the text only for heading Node Object Methods from a webpage. The specific HMTL part is as follows:

Node Object Properties
         


        

Answer 1

You can use XPath to extract data from the very next table after the heading Node Object Methods, like so

use Web::Scraper;

my $html = do { local $/;  };

my $methods = scraper {
    process '//h2[.="Node Object Methods"]/following-sibling::table[1]//tr/td[1]', 
        'renners[]' => 'TEXT';
};  
my $res = $methods->scrape( $html );

say join "\n", @{ $res->{renners} };

The output will be

appendChild()
cloneNode()
compareDocumentPosition()
getFeature(feature,version)
getUserData(key)
hasAttributes()
hasChildNodes()
insertBefore()