Screen-scraping with WWW::Mechanize (O'Reilly)

[Posted January 29, 2003 by cook]

Chris Ball shows how to scrape screens with Perl. "Screen-scraping is the process of emulating an interaction with a Web site - not just downloading pages, but filling out forms, navigating around the site, and dealing with the HTML received as a result. As well as for traditional lookups of information - like the example we'll be exploring in this article - we can use screen-scraping to enhance a Web service into doing something the designers hadn't given us the power to do in the first place."

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