I'm currently new to using WWW::Mechanize and am using it to build a web scraping tool that will go onto a school website and pull course data so that the website I'm building can recognize conflicts. I currently have this code in Perl:
#!/user/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize;
my $browser = WWW::Mechanize->new;
$browser->get( 'https://registrar.ucdavis.edu/courses/search/index.cfm
+');
$browser->form_number(3); #Search Form
$browser->select('subject', 'AAS');
$browser->submit();
print $browser->content();
The way the website works, you go in, select a subject area, and then click "Search". Then a table populates based off what you selected in the forms above.
I'm currently focused on just getting my script to select one option from the dropdown menu, click "Search" and then copy the results, but for one, I'm not sure if it's actually working (It's not giving me any errors, but I'm not sure it's doing anything) and two, I'm not sure how to view the data that pops up in the table. Any help would be appreciated!
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