Simple Perl Help

Discussion in 'Programming' started by MelogKnaj, Dec 5, 2008.

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    I want a perl script to search a web page for a link containing certain anchor text, follow that link and then return the URL it goes to. I have looked online and really have no idea where to start. Any help you guys could give would be great.
     
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    happpy Well-Known Member

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  3. bille

    bille Peon

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    This should get you started...

    #!/usr/bin/perl
use LWP::Simple;
my $url = "http://somewebsite.com/";
my $content = get $url or die "couldn't get content: $!\n";
print "$content\n";
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    Then read up on how to parse html in perl.

    This article is older, but still applicable:

    http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol5_1/tpj0501-0003.html
     
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    MelogKnaj Active Member

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    If you had read my post you would realize I am not looking for a perl crawler. Also plugging your own custom search in an effort to make money is extremely annoying.

    Thanks bille, do I really need to print the content to search it? Should I just be able to search within the page I'm on?
     
    MelogKnaj, Dec 6, 2008 IP