HTML::Extract - Perl extension for getting text and HTML snippets out of HTML pages in general.

  use HTML::Extract;
  my $extractor=new HTML::Extract;
  # return a text version of the content
  print $extractor->gethtml(http://uri/,tagname=body,returntype=text);

  

This is a pretty simple little Perl module for getting text out of HTML pages. It's really designed so that you can call it in anything where you would otherwise be looking for a way of stripping part of web pages away (for example, if you are extracting some pieces of text with the intent of placing it elsewhere). It also comes with a little demonstration program that shows how it can be wrapped as a command line program...

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Obviously this makes use of quite a few other modules to do what it does; HTML::Element, HTML::TreeBuilder, HTML::TagFilter, LWP::UserAgent, LWP::Simple.

Emma Tonkin, < cselt@users.sourceforge.net >

Copyright (C) 2006 by Emma Tonkin

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.6 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.