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How is it possible to scan a html document , i want to create a script which checks for dead links and broken images etc... Any help would be appreciated, John

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Re: Scanning a html document....
by btrott (Parson) on Jun 21, 2000 at 00:19 UTC
    And, in addition to plaid's answer, check out HTML::LinkExtor, which sounds like it might fit what you want very well. From the docs: 
        HTML::LinkExtor is an HTML parser that extracts links from
    an HTML document.  The HTML::LinkExtor is a subclass of
    HTML::Parser. This means that the document should be given
    to the parser by calling the $p->parse() or $p->parse_file()
    methods.

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Re: Scanning a html document....
by plaid (Chaplain) on Jun 21, 2000 at 00:09 UTC
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RE: Scanning a html document....
by mcwee (Pilgrim) on Jun 21, 2000 at 00:50 UTC
    If you want something homemade (but at least ready-made), you can use this little fella: My Little Time-Saving Spyder of mine. Just mod the regex to find links. Admittedly, you'll still have to put something together to check the list of links, but that's pretty easy using LWP.

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