collectlinks

README

Package collectlinks is useful for only one task:

Given a response from http.Get it will use parse the page and return to you a slice of all the href links found.

Usage:

package main
import (
  "github.com/jackdanger/collectlinks"
  "net/http"
  "fmt"
)

func main() {
  resp, _ := http.Get("http://motherfuckingwebsite.com")
  links := collectlinks.All(resp.Body)
  fmt.Println(links)
}

Running that will output:

[http://twitter.com/thebarrytone http://txti.es]

Documentation

Overview

Package collectlinks does extraordinarily simple operation of parsing a given piece of html and providing you with all the hyperlinks hrefs it finds.

Package collectlinks is useful for only one task:

Given a response from http.Get it will use parse the page and
return to you a slice of all the href links found.

Usage:

package main
import (
  "github.com/jackdanger/collectlinks"
  "net/http"
  "fmt"
)

func main() {
  resp, _ := http.Get("http://motherfuckingwebsite.com")
  links := collectlinks.All(resp.Body)
  fmt.Println(links)
}

Running that will output:

[http://twitter.com/thebarrytone http://txti.es]

Index

• func All(httpBody io.Reader) []string

Functions

func All

func All(httpBody io.Reader) []string

All takes a reader object (like the one returned from http.Get()) It returns a slice of strings representing the "href" attributes from anchor links found in the provided html. It does not close the reader passed to it.