We use something like this:
use HTML::Parser 3;
use LWP::Simple;
my $html = get("http://perlmonks.org");
print body_text($html);
sub body_text {
my $content = $_[0] || return 'EMPTY BODY';
# HTML::Parser is broken on Javascript and styles
# (well it leaves it in the text) so we 'fix' it....
my $p = HTML::Parser->new(
start_h => [ sub{ $_[0]->{text}.=' '; $_[0]->{skip}++ if $_[1]
+ eq 'script' or $_[1] eq 'style'; } , 'self,tag' ],
end_h => [ sub{ $_[0]->{skip}-- if $_[1] eq '/script' or $_[
+1] eq '/style'; } , 'self,tag' ],
text_h => [ sub{ $_[0]->{text}.=$_[1] unless $_[0]->{skip}},
+'self,dtext' ]
)->parse($content);
$p->eof();
my $text = $p->{text};
# remove escapes
$text =~ s/ / /gi;
$text =~ s/&[^;]+;/ /g;
# remove non ASCII printable chars, leaves punctuation stuff
$text =~ s/[^\040-\177]+/ /g;
# remove any < or > in case parser choked - rare but happens
$text =~ s/[<>]/ /g;
# crunch whitespace
$text =~ s/\s{2,}/ /g;
$text =~ s/^\s+//g;
return $text;
}
Hint. Using LWP::Simple to get web pages for a search engine is doomed to failure. You will for a start collect the frameset but not the frames of every page you visit that uses frames. You will be blocked by a number of sites for not being IE. You will ignore metarefreshes and 302 found (perhaps you want to perhaps not). You also have no idea of the problem if you don't get content.
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Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big>
<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
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Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
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Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
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