g day my dear php-folks
i am testing a code .- this is a proof of concept. Please do not bear with me as this is a perl-snippet. Can u help me.
The question is; if i apply this to another forum - can i get any detailed results.
thanks for any answer - thanks for any and all help
cheers
bernard hinautl
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::RobotUA;
use HTML::LinkExtor;
use HTML::TokeParser;
use URI::URL;
use Data::Dumper; # for show and troubleshooting
my $url = "http://www.phpBBhacks.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=17";
my $ua = LWP::RobotUA->new;
my $lp = HTML::LinkExtor->new(\&wanted_links);
my @links;
get_threads($url);
foreach my $page (@links) { # this loops over each link collected from the index
my $r = $ua->get($page);
if ($r->is_success) {
my $stream = HTML::TokeParser->new(\$r->content) or die "Parse error in $page: $!";
# just printing what was collected
print Dumper get_thread($stream);
# would instead have database insert statement at this point
} else {
warn $r->status_line;
}
}
sub get_thread {
my $p = shift;
my ($title, $name, @thread);
while (my $tag = $p->get_tag('a','span')) {
if (exists $tag->[1]{'class'}) {
if ($tag->[0] eq 'span') {
if ($tag->[1]{'class'} eq 'name') {
$name = $p->get_trimmed_text('/span');
} elsif ($tag->[1]{'class'} eq 'postbody') {
my $post = $p->get_trimmed_text('/span');
push @thread, {'name'=>$name, 'post'=>$post};
}
} else {
if ($tag->[1]{'class'} eq 'maintitle') {
$title = $p->get_trimmed_text('/a');
}
}
}
}
return {'title'=>$title, 'thread'=>\@thread};
}
sub get_threads {
my $page = shift;
my $r = $ua->request(HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url), sub {$lp->parse($_[0])});
# Expand URLs to absolute ones
my $base = $r->base;
return [map { $_ = url($_, $base)->abs; } @links];
}
sub wanted_links {
my($tag, %attr) = @_;
return unless exists $attr{'href'};
return if $attr{'href'} !~ /^viewtopic\.php\?t=/;
push @links, values %attr;
}
