Now that you've mentioned going to one web page and following a link to another (I must have missed that point when I first read your post), I'd agree with "Your Mother"'s suggestion of using WWW::Mechanize.
Also, since you mentioned that this is to gather player stats from an online game, you might want to search for that game's name at CPAN. There's a chance that someone may have written a module to do some/all of the work you're wanting to do. My philosophy is: why reinvent the wheel if you don't have to?
