Re^2: Extract Web Page

To get you started, look at the get function of LWP::Simple. Also, you might want to take a look at web spiders.

Useless trivia: In the 2004 Las Vegas phone book there are approximately 28 pages of ads for massage, but almost 200 for lawyers.

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Re: Extract Web Page by perleager (Pilgrim) on Apr 01, 2005 at 11:50 UTC
Hello, A small example that uses LWP to retreive the contents of a file from the web. It stores the web page content your looking for into the file 'temp.html', where you then can use it to your liking. `use LWP; my $filenamex = 'temp.html'; open FH, ">$filenamex"; print FH get("http://www.thewebsiteyouwant.com/page_you_want.html"); close FH;` [download] If you are looking to extract/parse information off that particular HTML page you want, might want to take a look at a module like HTML::TokeParser (I perfer using this, another popular one is HTML::TreeBuilder If you really want to learn a lot about LWP and the many uses it has, I recommend purchasing a used book of "Perl & LWP" published by O'Reilly. perleager	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: Extract Web Page
by perleager (Pilgrim) on Apr 01, 2005 at 11:50 UTC

use LWP;

my $filenamex = 'temp.html';

open FH, ">$filenamex";
print FH get("http://www.thewebsiteyouwant.com/page_you_want.html");
close FH;
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HTML::TokeParser

HTML::TreeBuilder

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