I have a script that will download a webpage and its links, but I want to application to 'spider' and then open the links. (The original web page is a list of links to webpages that are useful to me)

Here is my code with comments 

 # Include the WWW::Mechanize module
use WWW::Mechanize;

# What URL shall we retrieve?
$url = "http://wx.toronto.ca/festevents.nsf/all?openform";

# Create a new instance of WWW::Mechanize
# enabling autoheck checks each request to ensure it was successful,
# producing an error if not.
my $mechanize = WWW::Mechanize->new(autocheck => 1);

# Retrieve the page
$mechanize->get($url);

# Assign the page content to $page
my $page = $mechanize->content;

# Retrieve the page title
my $title = $mechanize->title;

print "<b>$title</b><br />";

# Place all of the links in an array
my @links = $mechanize->links;

# Loop through and output each link
foreach my $link (@links) {

   # Retrieve the link URL
   my $href = $link->url;

   # Retrieve the link text
   my $name = $link->text;
   
   print "<a href=\"$href\">$name</a>\n";

}

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At the end I want to loop back and download the links in order to parse useful information. Please help! --Miriam

In reply to Building a Spidering Application by Anonymous Monk

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