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Re: [TCLUG:15558] run web-search and output to a file (perl?)
The LWP module does exactly what you are looking for. There is also an
HTML parser and some modules for dealing with URIs.
-Chris McKinley
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Ben Luey wrote:
> I have a list of e-mail address and I'd like to get first and last names
> for them in a tab-delinated text file using a search tool that is on the
> web. Any ideas how to go about this? I'd like to have a scripts (perl?)
> that for each e-mail address would run that through the web search-tool
> and put the output into a file where I could grep and sed the stuff. Below
> is teh code for the web page that has the search tool. I don't know where
> to start looking to do this. Does perl do web queries?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben
>
>
>
>
> <script language="javascript">
>
> <!--
> function focuslogin () {
> document.forms[0].searchstring.focus();
> }
> // -->
>
> </script>
> </HEAD>
> <BODY BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF onLoad="focuslogin();">
>
> <FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="index.php3">
> <TABLE WIDTH=100% HEIGHT=40 BGCOLOR=#000055 BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0
> CELLSPACING=0 HSPACE=0 VSPACE=0>
> <TR>
> <TD>
> <IMG SRC="http://www.carleton.edu/graphics/carleton-level2.gif"
> WIDTH=199 HEIGHT=18 ALT="Carleton College:" ALIGN=ABSMIDDLE>
> <IMG SRC="http://www.carleton.edu/graphics/campus/directory.gif"
> HEIGHT=15 WIDTH=111 ALIGN=RIGHT>
> </TD>
> </TR>
> </TABLE>
> <BR CLEAR=RIGHT>
> <BLOCKQUOTE>
> <H1>Carleton Phone Book Search:</H1>
> <p>This is an index of Carleton phone numbers. Please type a
> query in
> the search dialog. </p>
> <P>Display entries containing <em>all</em> of these words:
> <INPUT TYPE=text NAME="searchstring">
> <INPUT TYPE=submit VALUE="Search">
> </P>
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>
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> </FORM>
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