I'm quite sure that the displaytype=displaycode cgi argument makes perlmonks return the code as plain text, not HTML, so the angle brackets shouldn't be a problem.

Let me try.

use warnings; use strict;
my $u = "http://perlmonks.com/?node_id=662172;displaytype=displaycode"
+;
use LWP; print LWP::UserAgent->new->get($u)->content;
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