Re: Following links: What's wrong with me????

Li, Jialin wrote:

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 7:28 AM, J. Peng <peng.kyo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 2:52 AM, hotkitty <stpra123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This is my first experience w/ PERL and I've searched everywhere but
haven't found the answer. As an example, how do I simply open a
webpage (www.bloomberg.com) then click on each link within that
webpage that contains "Calpers Chief Buenrostro" and then click on
each link in that link that contains "Frederick of Schwab"?

WWW::Mechanize is useful for your purpose. See:
http://search.cpan.org/~petdance/WWW-Mechanize-1.34/lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm<http://search.cpan.org/%7Epetdance/WWW-Mechanize-1.34/lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm>

And see the example usages of this module:

http://search.cpan.org/~petdance/WWW-Mechanize-1.34/lib/WWW/Mechanize/Examples.pod<http://search.cpan.org/%7Epetdance/WWW-Mechanize-1.34/lib/WWW/Mechanize/Examples.pod>

From my experience, Mechanize is much easier to use than LWP.

(Please bottom-post your replies to this group, so that extended threads can remain comprehensible. Thank you.)

WWW::Mechanize is a subclass of LWP::Useragent, intended to add Web browser-like functionality to the facilities in LWP. It isn't intended as a replacement, and is of little use unless you need to emulate the use of browser software programmatically. Note that it provides no support either for JavaScript or for the non-standard features in Internet Explorer such as Active-X controls.

Rob
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