WEB CRAWLER AND HTML EXTRACTOR Please input the URL of the site to be searched Please use a full URL (eg. http://www.dcs.shef.ac. http://www.google.com/
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use WWW::Mechanize;
use URI;
print "WEB CRAWLER AND HTML EXTRACTOR \n";
print "Please input the URL of the site to be searched \n";
print "Please use a full URL (eg. http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/) \n";
#Create an instance of the webcrawler
my $webcrawler = WWW::Mechanize->new();
my $url_name = ; # The user inputs the URL to be searched
my $uri = URI->new($url_name); # Process the URL and make it a URI
#Grab the contents of the URL given by the user
$webcrawler->get($uri);
# Put the links that exist in the HTML of the URL given by the user in an array
my @website_links = $webcrawler->links($uri);
# The HTML is stripped off the contents and the text is stored in an array of strings
my $x = 0;
my @stripped_html;
$stripped_html[$x] = $webcrawler->content( format => "text" );
print $stripped_html[$x];