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Old 12-15-2008
Grabbing URL's from a website
Hi everyone,

Need your help creating a script that downloads a website after entering the URL e.g. Google, and parses its contents for URL's and appends the output to a text file in this format:

http://grabbed-url-from-downloaded-website.com/
http://another-url-from-downloaded-website.com/

I was thinking maybe wget, and a script that greps for http* or www* and lists all it can find on a flatfile.

Thanks!
Ogoy
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Old 12-15-2008
Hi

Exactly. What you are trying to do is fine. Did you try any such script? I have done it couple of times, and it seems simple. Let me know if you need any help in parsing the contents.

~$u)hir
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Old 12-15-2008
You might want to try lwp-request. man lwp-request
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Old 12-15-2008
I've used the following with fairly good results:

links -dump "http://www.cnn.com" | egrep -o "http:.*"

I append the output > urlist.list however I am unsure how reliable this is. In other words yes, I do need help with parsing haha!

Thanks for the quick response guys Smilie

Ogoy
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