Godsrock37 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

How would I go about downloading a pdf from the internet?

first off i found the pdf modules and briefly glanced over how to use it, but i have no idea how i would open a url-based pdf to then save locally...

i looked at web fetch but that seemed focused on downloading news and just plain old websites...

any thoughts?

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Re: Download PDF's
by moritz (Cardinal) on Jun 19, 2008 at 14:35 UTC
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      Really?! That's hot. So I could do:

      my $response = $robot->get($url, $url);
if ($response->is_success and $response->content_type eq 'application/
+pdf'){
print PDF $contents;
}

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      how would i get $contents? Some type of parsing?

      I guess that means i can do the same thing with pictures too?

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[d/l]

        Even easier: 

        use strict;
use LWP::Simple qw/getstore/;

my $url  = "http://blahblah/file.pdf";
my $file = "/home/user/file.pdf";

getstore($url, $file);

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        b10m
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Re: Download PDF's
by marto (Cardinal) on Jun 19, 2008 at 14:51 UTC
    A nice an easy way would be to use LWP, it provides lwp-download (along with other helpful scripts) which you can either just use as a script, or as a basis for your own script to achieve your goal.

    Hope this helps

    Martin
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      thanks marto... i checked it out... now i have a few options. i'll see whats easier and takes up the least processor time and go from there. thanks again

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