#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::Simple;

#####################################################################
### Set how many times to run, how long (in seconds) to wait between
### page hits, and how often to print an interim status report.
my ($iterations, $nice, $status_print_interval) = (100, 5, 5);
#####################################################################

my %quips;
$SIG{INT} = sub{ print_results(\%quips); exit(0) };
my $loopcount = 0;

print "Beginning PerlMonks Quip Gatherer...\n";
while($iterations > 0){
    my $content = get('http://www.perlmonks.org');
    die "Failed to load content!\n" unless defined($content);
    
    extract_quip(\%quips, \$content);
    $iterations--;
    $loopcount++;
    print "Found ", scalar keys %quips,
        " quip(s) so far, $iterations iteration(s) left...\n"
        if ($loopcount % $status_print_interval == 0);
    sleep($nice) if ($iterations);
}
print_results(\%quips);

#####################################################################
### SUBS                                                          ###
#####################################################################

sub extract_quip{
    my ($quips, $content) = @_;
    if ($$content =~ m!<td class="monkquip"[^>]+>(.*?)</td>!s){
        my $data = $1;
        $data =~ s!\<[^>]*>!!sg;
        $data =~ s!\s{2,}!!sg;
        $quips->{$data}++;
    }
}

sub print_results{
    my $quips = shift;

    print "\n********** RESULTS **********\n";
    while (my ($key, $val) = each(%$quips)){
        print "$val time(s): $key\n";
    }
}
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