How to use Mojolicious for web scraping

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The map function is designed to transform a list or collection via a function. You could use a for each loop, but the map has the advantage of returning a new list or collection, enabling you to chain other methods or functions, like the -Mojo oneliner does with join().

So much of the modern web is driven by services and front-end interfaces talking to APIs that it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that everything is ultimately presented in a soup of HTML markup. In the absence of a well-structured interface or format, sometimes the code you’re writing needs to scrape