Viewing HTML source from URL

Julia De Silva · Dec 12, 2005

Hi there all,

Is it possible to view/process HTML source from an URL ?

my $html_file = 'http://www.mydomain.com/index.htm';
open(HTML, "$html_file") or die "$!";
while (<HTML>) { print; }
close(HTML) or die "$!";

The above doesn't find the file or directory which I suppose makes sense

my $html_file = '/path/to/document/index.htm';
open(HTML, "$html_file") or die "$!";
while (<HTML>) { print; }
close(HTML) or die "$!";

The above works OK but is not what I wanted !

Thanks in advance for help

J

Julia De Silva · Dec 12, 2005

Is it possible to view/process HTML source from an URL ?

my $html_file = 'http://www.mydomain.com/index.htm';
open(HTML, "$html_file") or die "$!";
while (<HTML>) { print; }
close(HTML) or die "$!";

The above doesn't find the file or directory which I suppose makes sense

my $html_file = '/path/to/document/index.htm';
open(HTML, "$html_file") or die "$!";
while (<HTML>) { print; }
close(HTML) or die "$!";

The above works OK but is not what I wanted !

Before the flames, please ignore this post .... I've at last found the FAQ
for this !!
Half the trouble is asking the right question !

J

Lars Eighner · Dec 12, 2005

In our last episode,

the lovely and said:
Hi there all,

Is it possible to view/process HTML source from an URL ?

Use the get function in LWP::simple. If you don't have LWP
installed and don't want to install, you can backtick whatever
fetch utility you have on your system or whatever browser with
appropriate flags (`lynx -source http://whatever`).

my $html_file = 'http://www.mydomain.com/index.htm';
open(HTML, "$html_file") or die "$!";
while (<HTML>) { print; }
close(HTML) or die "$!";

The above doesn't find the file or directory which I suppose makes sense

my $html_file = '/path/to/document/index.htm';
open(HTML, "$html_file") or die "$!";
while (<HTML>) { print; }
close(HTML) or die "$!";

John Bokma · Dec 12, 2005

Julia De Silva said:
Hi there all,

Is it possible to view/process HTML source from an URL ?

my $html_file = 'http://www.mydomain.com/index.htm';
open(HTML, "$html_file") or die "$!";
while (<HTML>) { print; }
close(HTML) or die "$!";

The above doesn't find the file or directory which I suppose makes sense

http://johnbokma.com/perl/

has several examples on getting the HTML, and processing it.

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