Well to me Perl sometimes looks abit Abracadabra

i need to have some thumbnails from websites: i tried to use wget - but that does not work for me, since i need some rendering functions but i tried to use wget - but that does not work for me, since i need some rendering functions what is needet: i have a list of 2,500 URLs, one on each line, saved in a file. Then i want a script - see it below - to open the file, read a line, then retrieve the website and save the image as a small thumbnail.

well since i have a bunch of web-sites (2500) i have to make up my mind about the naming of the results. 

 
http://www.unifr.ch/sfm
http://www.zug.phz.ch
http://www.schwyz.phz.ch
http://www.luzern.phz.ch
http://www.schwyz.phz.ch
http://www.phvs.ch
http://www.phtg.ch
http://www.phsg.ch
http://www.phsh.ch
http://www.phr.ch
http://www.hepfr.ch/
http://www.phbern.ch

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So far so good, well i think i try something like this
We also have to close a filehandler if we do not need it anymore., Besides this we can use 'or die' on open.
Btw we need a good file name. Since i have a huge list of urls then i get a huge list of output files. Therefore i need to have good file names. Can we reflect those things and needs in the programme!?

the script does not start at all ....

 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use WWW::Mechanize::Firefox;

my $mech = new WWW::Mechanize::Firefox();

open(INPUT, "<urls.txt") or die $!;

while (<INPUT>) {
        chomp;
        next if $_ =~ m/http/i;
        print "$_\n";
        $mech->get($_);
        my $png = $mech->content_as_png();
        my $name = "$_";
        $name =~s#http://##is;
        $name =~s#/##gis;$name =~s#\s+\z##is;$name =~s#\A\s+##is;
        $name =~s/^www\.//;
        $name .= ".png";
        open(my $out, ">",$name) or die $!;
        binmode($out);
        print $out $png;
        close($out);
        sleep (5);
}

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well - i think that some thing is not correct with the regex and the sanitizing....

any guess - sometimes it looks abracadava

In reply to WWW::Mechanize::Firefox - allmost there - only a little regex error left by Perlbeginner1

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