LWP::UserAgent - 01 - Basics

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use LWP 5.64; # Loads all important LWP classes, and makes
              # sure your version is reasonably recent.

my $url = 'http://freshair.npr.org/dayFA.cfm?todayDate=current';

my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $response = $browser->get( $url );
die "Can't get $url -- ", $response->status_line
   unless $response->is_success;

die "Hey, I was expecting HTML, not ", $response->content_type
   unless $response->content_type eq 'text/html';
   # or whatever content-type you're dealing with.

# Otherwise, process the content somehow:
if ($response->content =~ m/jazz/i) {
    print "They're talking about jazz today on Fresh Air!\n";
} else {print "Fresh Air is apparently jazzless today.\n"; }

LWP::UserAgent + HTTP::Response