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NAME

6       WWW::Mechanize::Cookbook - Recipes for using WWW::Mechanize
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VERSION

9       version 1.95
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INTRODUCTION

12       First, please note that many of these are possible just using
13       LWP::UserAgent.  Since "WWW::Mechanize" is a subclass of
14       LWP::UserAgent, whatever works on "LWP::UserAgent" should work on
15       "WWW::Mechanize".  See the lwpcook man page included with the libwww-
16       perl distribution.
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BASICS

19   Launch the WWW::Mechanize browser
20           use WWW::Mechanize;
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22           my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new( autocheck => 1 );
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24       The "autocheck => 1" tells Mechanize to die if any IO fails, so you
25       don't have to manually check.  It's easier that way.  If you want to do
26       your own error checking, leave it out.
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28   Fetch a page
29           $mech->get( "http://search.cpan.org" );
30           print $mech->content;
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32       "$mech->content" contains the raw HTML from the web page.  It is not
33       parsed or handled in any way, at least through the "content" method.
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35   Fetch a page into a file
36       Sometimes you want to dump your results directly into a file.  For
37       example, there's no reason to read a JPEG into memory if you're only
38       going to write it out immediately.  This can also help with memory
39       issues on large files.
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41           $mech->get( "http://www.cpan.org/src/stable.tar.gz",
42                       ":content_file" => "stable.tar.gz" );
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44   Fetch a password-protected page
45       Generally, just call "credentials" before fetching the page.
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47           $mech->credentials( 'admin' => 'password' );
48           $mech->get( 'http://10.11.12.13/password.html' );
49           print $mech->content();
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52   Find all image links
53       Find all links that point to a JPEG, GIF or PNG.
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55           my @links = $mech->find_all_links(
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58   Find all download links
59       Find all links that have the word "download" in them.
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61           my @links = $mech->find_all_links(
62               tag => "a", text_regex => qr/\bdownload\b/i );
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ADVANCED

65   See what will be sent without actually sending anything
66           $mech->add_handler("request_send", sub { shift->dump; exit; });
67           $mech->get("http://www.example.com");
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SEE ALSO

70       WWW::Mechanize
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AUTHOR

73       Andy Lester <andy at petdance.com>
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76       This software is copyright (c) 2004-2016 by Andy Lester.
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78       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
79       the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
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