Can anyone tell me how to parse HTML for anchor tag info

[JustShaun]

Hello can anyone tell me how i would go about parsing HTML from a url to gather anchor tags content?

 

[sdeakin]

Have a look at HTML::TreeBuilder - it allows you to break down a HTML page into it's components

http://search.cpan.org/author/SBURKE/HTML-Tree-3.18/lib/HTML/TreeBuilder.pm

HTH,
Scotty

 

[CherylD]

The HTML:arser works too.

 

[MikeLacey]

HTML::TreeBuilder inherits the methods of both HTML:arser and HTML::Element. The methods inherited from HTML:arser are used for building the HTML tree, and the methods inherited from HTML::Element are what you use to scrutinize the tree.

Mike

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[zerojinx]

You can do it pretty quickly by hand too. Something like:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use LWP::Simple;
use strict;
my $content = &get("

http://my.address.com/webpage.html");

my @urls = $content =~ /href="(.*?)"/smig;

print join("\n", @urls), "\n";