in reply to Perl equivalent to Python's urllib module?

How about this?

use Web::Magic;

print Web::Magic
    -> new('http://www.perlmonks.org/', node_id => 980503)
    -> querySelector('div.doctext')
    -> toString;

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perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

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