HTML Hacking Scripts

Here are a few useful web-related programs I've written lately. You might also see this interesting program by Abigail.

Shaking Up the Web

latro: Latro finds idiotic PC sites open to perl.exe?FMH.pl abuse and reports their little problem.

churl: Extract URLs and verify validity; currently only looks for FTP:, HTTP:, and FILE: schemata, stored in A or IMG tags.
striphtml: Strip out all the html bits from a document, leaving (unformatted) plain text in its wake.
htdecom: Strips out comments from an HTML document.

Retrieve the title from a URL.

surl: Given a list of URLs, sorts them by last-modified date.
xurl: Given one URL, extract all URLs it contains. Uses the LWP library, and is pretty complete.
qxurl: Somewhat like xurl, (means ``quick xurl'') but expects to read from files, not URLs, and doesn't canonicalize relative links. It also runs about 100x faster and doesn't require an external library.
reltree Fix up a tree's URL to make them all relative instead of absolute.

ggh: Grovel global history. Search or dump out the netscape global history history file.