// Copyright © 2016 Alan A. A. Donovan & Brian W. Kernighan. // License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ // See page 138. //!+Extract // Package links provides a link-extraction function. package links import ( "fmt" "net/http" "golang.org/x/net/html" ) // Extract makes an HTTP GET request to the specified URL, parses // the response as HTML, and returns the links in the HTML document. func Extract(url string) ([]string, error) { resp, err := http.Get(url) if err != nil { return nil, err } if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusOK { resp.Body.Close() return nil, fmt.Errorf("getting %s: %s", url, resp.Status) } doc, err := html.Parse(resp.Body) resp.Body.Close() if err != nil { return nil, fmt.Errorf("parsing %s as HTML: %v", url, err) } var links []string visitNode := func(n *html.Node) { if n.Type == html.ElementNode && n.Data == "a" { for _, a := range n.Attr { if a.Key != "href" { continue } link, err := resp.Request.URL.Parse(a.Val) if err != nil { continue // ignore bad URLs } links = append(links, link.String()) } } } forEachNode(doc, visitNode, nil) return links, nil } //!-Extract // Copied from gopl.io/ch5/outline2. func forEachNode(n *html.Node, pre, post func(n *html.Node)) { if pre != nil { pre(n) } for c := n.FirstChild; c != nil; c = c.NextSibling { forEachNode(c, pre, post) } if post != nil { post(n) } }