Reading an internet page

[stillnew2perl]

Ok, so I got my AIMBOT working!!!

But when I receive instant messages, they are displayed in html. So it got me thinking, could I view an entire web PAGE in it's html source form in perl and read off of it???

Thanks!!!

 

[KevinADC]

Sounds possible.

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[Kirsle]

A neat trick I used to use in my AIM bot days...

$msg =~ s/<(.|\n)+?>//ig; # strip all HTML out

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[stillnew2perl]

How do I read in an html page though?

 

[Kirsle]

Same way you'd read in any other file.

open (LOCAL_FILE, "./test.html");
my @html = <LOCAL_FILE>;
close (LOCAL_FILE);

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use LWP::Simple;
my $remote_html = get "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.tek-tips.com/index.cfm";[/URL]

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