Re^2: How do i save an image with www::mechanize


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Re^2: How do i save an image with www::mechanize

by wilsond (Scribe)

on Jan 20, 2009 at 08:20 UTC ( [id://737508]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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# after you get the URL (like [jonnyfolk] shows above)

use LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
my $res = $ua->mirror($imageurl, $localfilename);
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Re^3: How do i save an image with www::mechanize
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 20, 2009 at 08:50 UTC

Why wouldn't you just use the mechanize object?

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Re^4: How do i save an image with www::mechanize

by wilsond (Scribe) on Jan 21, 2009 at 19:18 UTC

I don't use WWW::Mechanize and don't really know it well. My way is just one more way to do it, though I admit probably not the best way.

While I ask a lot of Win32 questions, I hate Windows with a passion. That's the problem with writing a cross-platform program. I'm a Linux user myself. I wish more people were.

If you want to do evil, science provides the most powerful weapons to do evil; but equally, if you want to do good, science puts into your hands the most powerful tools to do so.

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