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Re: RE: UserFriendly.org Full Size version forwarder :)

by Anonymous Monk
on Jun 08, 2001 at 21:17 UTC ( [id://86988]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to RE: UserFriendly.org Full Size version forwarder :)
in thread UserFriendly.org Full Size version forwarder :)

#!/usr/global/bin/perl use File::Basename; my $search_url = 'http://www.userfriendly.org/cgi-bin/texhtml?form=uf/ +rdf\&action=search'; my $comics_dir = '/home/user/.comics/'; my $url; open(IN, "wget -q -O - $search_url |") or die $!; while (<IN>) { if (/Today\'s Strip/) { <IN> =~ m|<link>(.*)</link>|; $url = $1; break; } } my $gif = $comics_dir . basename($url); system("wget -q -O $gif $url"); system("xv $gif");

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Re: Re: RE: UserFriendly.org Full Size version forwarder :)
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 08, 2001 at 21:34 UTC
    #!/usr/global/bin/perl -w use File::Basename; my $search_url = 'http://www.userfriendly.org/cgi-bin/texhtml?form=uf/ +rdf\&action=search'; my $comics_dir = '/home/user/.comics/'; open(IN, "wget -q -O - $search_url |") or die $!; while (<IN>) { last if /Today\'s Strip/; } <IN> =~ m|<link>(.*)</link>|; my $gif = $comics_dir . basename($1); system("wget -q -O $gif $1"); system("xv $gif");

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