Chapter 1. The Hunt for Data

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Harnessing data from various sources
• Accumulating text data from a file path
• Catching I/O code faults
• Keeping and representing data from a CSV file
• Examining a JSON file with the aeson package
• Reading an XML file using the HXT package
• Capturing table rows from an HTML page
• Understanding how to perform HTTP GET requests
• Learning how to perform HTTP POST requests
• Traversing online directories for data
• Using MongoDB queries in Haskell
• Reading from a remote MongoDB server
• Exploring data from a SQLite database