LWP::Simple

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use LWP::Simple;

my $url = 'http://radio.autistici.org/';

my $content = get($url);
die "Couldn't get $url" unless defined $content;

# Do things with $content:
if ($content =~ m/bandita/i) {
    print "Radio Bandita is streaming!\n";
} else { 
    print "No good music online.\n"; 
}

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