use URI;
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $what_i_want_to_find = 'perl monks';

$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
# google doesn't like it when user agent is libwww perl, so
# I change it to Mozilla/5.0
$ua->agent('Mozilla/5.0');

my $uri = URI::new;
$uri->query_form('q'=>$what_i_want_to_find);
my $url = 'http://www.google.com/search' . $uri->as_string;
my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);
my $res = $ua->request($req)->as_string;
$res =~ /\<p\>\<a href\=([^>]+)\>/;
print $1;
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Thanks moxliukas, I now understand the Get method, Do you know if the Post method works in a similar fashion when trying to automate the submit button on a form?

I am not sure how POST works, maybe some other PerlMonks could provide this information... I have used HTML::Form for form submission previouly, so have a look at that, it is pretty easy to understand.

Check out the second bit of sample code in this node to see how to set up a POST request.