#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;

my $url = "https://deutsch.rt.com/inland/";
my $path = "/home/me/RT/rt_scrape.html";
open PATH, "> $path" or die $!;

my $counter;
while (defined $url) {     
    my %hash;             
    my $html = qx(curl "$url");
    undef($url);
if ($html =~ m/href="(\/listing\/category.inland\/prepare\/last-news\/
+\d+">)Weiter/) {
    $url = "www.deutsch.rt.com" . $1;
    }
    my @row = split(/\n/,$html);
    foreach (@row){
        if ($html =~ m/href="(\/inland\/\d+\-.*?\/" class="cover__link
+ link ">)/g) {
            my $articles_url = "https://deutsch.rt.com/" . $1;
            $hash{$articles_url} = 1;
        }
    }
    foreach (keys %hash){
    $counter++;
    my $article = qx(curl $_);
    open PATH, "> /home/me/RT/$counter.txt" or die $!;
    print "\n\tFetching\n$_\n";
    print PATH "$article";
    close PATH;
    }
}

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I am a Perl newbie and I am trying to scrape the archive with all of the inland articles. Some articles are downloaded, but the files are empty.

The error message in the terminal is: "Fetching https://deutsch.rt.com//inland/50091-bundesregierung-giftgasvorwurfe-assad-saudi-arabien/" class="cover__link link "> sh: 1: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string"

So my script starts downloading the articles, but then something happens.. Can you please help me to write a functional script?

In reply to Scraping a website - Unterminated quoted string by Staralfur

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