$ perl tg6.pl downloaded 83 images from http://www.yahoo.com to folder site_4 $ cat tg6.pl #!/usr/bin/perl -w # creates a new directory and downloads images from url to it # perlmonks node 965537; thx aaron and A.M. use strict; use feature ':5.10'; use WWW::Mechanize; use LWP::Simple; use Errno qw[ EEXIST ]; # get information about images my $domain = 'http://www.yahoo.com'; my $m = WWW::Mechanize->new(); $m->get( $domain); my @list = $m->images(); # create new folder and download images to it. my $counter = 0; my $dir = &mk_new_dir; for my $img (@list) { my $url = $img->url_abs(); $counter++; my $filename = $dir. "/image_". $counter; getstore($url,$filename) or die "Can't download '$url': $@\n"; } # output print "downloaded ", $counter, " images from ", $domain, "\n"; print "to folder ", $dir, "\n"; sub mk_new_dir { my $counter2 = 1; while(1){ my $word = "site"; my $name = $word . '_' . $counter2++; if( mkdir $name, 0755 ){ return $name; # success, return new dir name } else { next if $!{EEXIST}; # mkdir failed because the file exists die $!; # it failed for some other reason; bail out! } } $