Search the web

rxguil has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I would like to seach a web site for certain tags (like downloading daily jokes), and save the contents from those tags to a variable. I tried to open the url like a file, but I get an error. Should I search for spidering?

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Re: Search the web by adrianh (Chancellor) on Aug 09, 2002 at 22:15 UTC
Take a look at LWP::Simple.	[reply]
Re: Search the web by io (Scribe) on Aug 10, 2002 at 09:19 UTC
There is an exellent turorial (though the example doesn't work anymore) available here you might want to look at about 'searching for tags'. Before you start messing with regexp.	[reply]