Read web content by URL in my program

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Re: Read web content by URL in my program by jettero (Monsignor) on Mar 28, 2007 at 10:52 UTC
LWP, WWW::Mechanize, et al. -Paul	[reply]
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Re: Read web content by URL in my program by davorg (Chancellor) on Mar 28, 2007 at 10:59 UTC
This is a frequently asked question, so the answer is in the FAQ. How do I fetch an HTML file? (Although, to be honest, it looks like the answer could do with being updated!) -- See the Copyright notice on my home node. "The first rule of Perl club is you do not talk about Perl club." -- Chip Salzenberg	[reply]
Re: Read web content by URL in my program by marto (Cardinal) on Mar 28, 2007 at 10:58 UTC
Hi larthana, You should take a look at WWW::Mechnize, it is well documented and comes with some pretty good examples. Taking a look at HTML::TokeParser would also be a good idea, if you are looking to manipulate and of the data displayed on the pages. Hope this helps Martin	[reply]
Re: Read web content by URL in my program by siva kumar (Pilgrim) on Mar 28, 2007 at 11:26 UTC
If you don't want to use LWP, you can use 'CURL' unix command to fetch data. Example : curl http://www.perlmonks.com > index.html Curl has several options for setting cookies,passing parameters,reading cookies etc., For more info read man curl	[reply]
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