$data =~ m/\<a href(.*)\<\/a\>/gs;

Regexes are greedy. This pattern will match from the first '<a href' to the last '', which is likely not what you want.

If you want to continue with your existing logic, you can try:

$data =~ m/\<a href(.*?)\<\/a\>/gs;

But, regexes might not be the best for matching this sort of thing, and actually parsing the HTML may be easier to maintain in the long run.

...

However ... in your particular case, Google doesn't like you doing this sort of thing. They used to offer accounts for people who wished to automate searching (with limits on how many searches you could run per day), but they seem to be phasing them out.

In reply to Re: matching links in a web request by jhourcle
in thread matching links in a web request by semio

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