Parsing JSON In Perl By Example – SouthParkStudios.com South Park Episodes
Updated: May 23rd, 2009
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to parse JSON using Perl. As a fun example, I'll use the new SouthParkStudios.com site released earlier this week, which contains full legal episodes of South Park. I guess the TV companies are finally getting a clue about what users want.
I will parse the first season's JSON and pull out information about individual episodes (like title, description, air date, etc) from http://www.southparkstudios.com/includes/utils/proxy_feed.php?html=season_json.jhtml%3fseason=1. Feel free to replace '1' with any valid season number.
Here's a short snippet of the JSON:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 |
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