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

I don't know java but I think that xpath is far better than classic regular expressions in order to get one (or more) html elements.

It is also easier to write and to read.

   
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With the html above, this expression "/html/body/a" will list all href elements.

Here's a good step by step tutorial http://www.zvon.org/xxl/XPathTutorial/General/examples.html