Re: Help with web crawling

Downloading the HTML-code of a web page is easy. LWP::Simple is the traditional Perl way of doing it.

use Modern::Perl;
use LWP::Simple;

my $content = get('http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/935226/00011
+4420411058092/0001144204-11-058092-index.htm');

say $content;
[download]

Of course that is only the simple part of your task. Extracting what you need is the difficult part.

HTML::Treebuilder is one of the HTML parsing modules that can be helpful here.

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