Hi all.

I have considered writing a news retrieval application for a few weeks. Essentially, I envision it has having the following capabilities:

• When 'fed' a list of keywords, it will search an array of news related sites ( http://news.yahoo.com, http://www.google.com, etc.) for stories that contain the keywords mentioned above.
  
  
• Since the articles are often (if not consistantly) accessible behind a hyperlink, my program needs to be able to follow them. One prime example being http://www.perl.com. It has an article entitled 'A Chromosome at a Time with Perl, Part 1'. The fact that it is behind a link adds another layer of complexity to my objective.
  
  
• After having made it's daily 'sweeps', each complete article would be stored on my local machine in HTML form so I could peruse them at my leisure.

I am considering using WWW::Mechanize but having never used it, I would greatly appreciate advice from those who have or any feedback from those who might suggest an alternate course of action. Included below, is my fledging foray into this vast arena.

use warnings;
use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $agent    = LWP::UserAgent->new();
my $site     = 'http://www.perl.com';
my $response = $agent->get( $site );

my $content  = $response->content();

if( $content =~ m/Chromosome/i ) {
  open( FH, ">>news.html" ) || die "Error : $!\n";
  print FH $content;

  close( FH ) || die "Error : $!\n";
}

else {
  print "Nothing!\n";
}
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Thanks,
-Katie.

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