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The LWP::Simple module provides a simple interface to the LWP (lib-www-perl) modules. The example below will retrieve a web page and write the HTML to the
local file "some_local_file
":
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use LWP::Simple; getstore('http://www.perlmeme.org', 'some_local_file'); exit 0;
The LWP object oriented style allows for more flexible behaviour:
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use LWP::UserAgent; my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; $ua->agent("Mozilla/8.0"); # Pretend to be Mozilla my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => 'http://www.perlmeme.org'); # The second parameter to request can be a filename my $res = $ua->request($req, 'pmstore'); if ($res->is_success) { print "Success!\n"; } else { print "Error: " . $res->status_list . "\n"; } exit 0;
Once you have installed the LWP module, you can get pages on the command line as follows:
GET http://www.perlmeme.org > pmstore
perldoc LWP::Simple perldoc lwpcook perldoc lwptut perldoc LWP::UserAgent