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Re^6: fetching and storing data from web.

by choroba (Cardinal)
on Jan 27, 2012 at 13:24 UTC ( [id://950361]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^5: fetching and storing data from web.
in thread fetching and storing data from web.

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Re^7: fetching and storing data from web.
by chessgui (Scribe) on Jan 27, 2012 at 13:38 UTC
    I've just googled the english part of the error message and it turned out that this is a typical problem for lamers: it is not enough to install the mozrepl extension but you have to explicitly run it or set the option 'Activate on startup' :). Now I'm able to open a web page. But it is still not clear how to use this module to submit a form or login to some site. Is there any tutorial on this that you recommend?
        It took me two hours to build the module on Win32. I got so frustrated that I've just put the name of the module to the search engine in the hope to get something working. If I do a proper search the first hit is the examples page you mentioned so no problem there.

        By the way grats for your module: it is really business like. Automatically looking up the form suitable for the given fields is really handy. I know what I mean: I parse forms manually from web pages and when the structure of the page changes ( form 5 suddenly becomes form 4 ) the whole application fails.
        Thanks. By reworking one of the examples I was able to put together a code which opens the Firefox browser, loads the CPAN search page, fills in the query field with 'WWW::Mechanize' and then submits the form:
        #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; # the module we're looking for my $module_name = 'WWW::Mechanize'; # create a new browser use WWW::Mechanize::Firefox; my $browser = WWW::Mechanize::Firefox->new( launch => 'C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/firefox.exe',tab=>'cur +rent' ); # tell it to get the main page $browser->get("http://search.cpan.org/"); # submit the query form $browser->submit_form(with_fields=>{query=>$module_name});

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