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

Use XMLSlurper to parse the HTML as an XML document and then use the find method with an appropriate closure to select the a tags and then use the list method on GPathResult to get a list of the tags. You should then be able to extract the text as children of the GPathResult.