anjalik has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I want to read the RSS feeds from the web site say, http://www.traffic.com/feeds/rss_atlanta.xml I know little about socket programming. I tried to get it by using socket and HTTP GET request, but here what I get is the source code of that web page but I want the content of the web page, e.g for the above link I want to get xml file shown on that web page. I will really apprecite the reply. thanks.

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Re: Accessing RSS feeds using perl
by fmerges (Chaplain) on Aug 06, 2005 at 02:13 UTC

    Hi,

    For example:

    #!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use XML::RSS;
use LWP::Simple;

# Get the source file
my $source = get("http://www.traffic.com/feeds/rss_atlanta.xml");

# Create a new XML:RSS object
my $rss = new XML::RSS (version => '2.0');

# Parse the file into the XML::RSS object
$rss->parse($source);

# For example print titles and links of each RSS item
foreach my $item (@{$rss->{'items'}}) {
   print "title: $item->{'title'}\n";
   print "link: $item->{'link'}\n\n";
}

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Re: Accessing RSS feeds using perl
by davidrw (Prior) on Aug 06, 2005 at 00:03 UTC
    GET'ing the page should work just fine .. LWP::Simple makes this, well, simple ;) 
    perl -MLWP::Simple -e 'getprint "http://www.traffic.com/feeds/rss_atla
+nta.xml"'

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