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

Try a regular expression. Something like this should work:

(html =~ /(.*?)<\/a>/).each { url, text -> 
    // do something with url and text
}

Take a look at Groovy - Tutorial 4 - Regular expressions basics and Anchor Tag Regular Expression Breaking.