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How can I make an HTTP GET request from Perl?

I am trying to retrieve the entire source of an HTML page through perl so I can parse some data from it later on.

What is the easiest way to do so?

(by easiest I mean least overhead of adding new libraries)

Thanks

Answer 1

LWP::Simple is a great way to connect to websites to get source info.

use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::Simple;

my $url = 'http://www.example.com';
my $content = get $url or die "Unable to get $url\n";
print $content;