How do you parse a web page and extract all the href links?

Question

I want to parse a web page in Groovy and extract all of the href links and the associated text with it.

If the page contained these links:

Answer 1

Assuming well-formed XHTML, slurp the xml, collect up all the tags, find the 'a' tags, and print out the href and text.

input = """
John
Google
StackOverflow
"""

doc = new XmlSlurper().parseText(input)
doc.depthFirst().collect { it }.findAll { it.name() == "a" }.each {
    println "${it.text()}, ${it.@href.text()}"
}