TaxHunter

Plant Hunter is a Perl script designed to retrieve plant species taxonomic data from World Flora Online.

Features

Input/Output: Reads a list of species from an input file and writes the scraped data to an output file. Web Scraping: Utilizes LWP::UserAgent for HTTP requests and HTML::TreeBuilder for HTML parsing. Data Extraction: Extracts valuable information like species name, status, order, family, and genus.

Dependencies

• Getopt::Long
• LWP::UserAgent
• HTML::TreeBuilder
• IO::Handle

Installation

To install and run this script, follow these steps in your terminal:

👉 Terminal

user@machine:~$ git clone https://github.com/tuusuario/PlantHunter.git
Cloning into 'PlantHunter'...
...
user@machine:~$ cd PlantHunter

Usage

Prepare an input file containing a list of species names, one per line. Run the script using the following command:

perl plantHunter.pl -i input.txt -o output.txt

Example

Input File

The input file should contain a list of species names, one per line. For example:

Arabidopsis thaliana
Oryza sativa
Zea mays
Fictus plantus
etc..

Output File

The output file will contain the scraped data in a tab-separated format. Here's what the output might look like with different statuses:

| Species              | Status                          | Order      | Family       | Genus       |
| -------------------- | ------------------------------- | ---------- | ------------ | ----------- |
| Arabidopsis thaliana | Accepted Name                   | Brassicales| Brassicaceae | Arabidopsis |
| Oryza sativa         | Accepted Name                   | Poales     | Poaceae      | Oryza       |
| Zea mays             | Accepted Name                   | Poales     | Poaceae      | Zea         |
| Fictus plantus       | The name may be misspelled or   |
|                      | not recognized                  | N/A        | N/A          | N/A         |

| etc...               |