garskoci has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Hello Monks!
This is my first time trying to do some screen scraping. In my real life I use Perl to automate administration tasks and parse data. This is my first experience with OO and screen scraping. What I basically need to do is, log into my Netgear router, navigate to the page that shows the port rules and select/de-select radio buttons to open or close ports. Then submit the form.
I found that I can login with the LWP module and get the html from the correct page showing the port settings. I also found that can not login in when using Mechanize. I am having a bit of trouble getting the form name and the names of the fields.
So..... can you please tell me if I am on track?
I have plans on using LWP to login and get the resulting html that shows the port settings. Use Mechanize to select and de-select radio buttons. Use Mechanize to submit the form. Use LWP to get the html back and Tokeparser to get and display the final settings in a reportish looking type of output.
Does this sound like a good way of going about this? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I'm somewhat lost here.
Regards.
Edited by davido: Added formatting tags to match original input intent.
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Re: screen scraping
by borisz (Canon) on Jan 08, 2005 at 18:53 UTC | |
Re: screen scraping
by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Jan 08, 2005 at 19:37 UTC | |
by garskoci (Novice) on Jan 08, 2005 at 19:54 UTC | |
by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Jan 08, 2005 at 20:06 UTC | |
by garskoci (Novice) on Jan 08, 2005 at 20:16 UTC | |
by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Jan 09, 2005 at 00:30 UTC | |
by garskoci (Novice) on Jan 08, 2005 at 20:38 UTC | |
Re: screen scraping
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 09, 2005 at 03:05 UTC | |
by garskoci (Novice) on Jan 09, 2005 at 17:10 UTC | |
by garskoci (Novice) on Jan 11, 2005 at 05:11 UTC | |
Re: screen scraping
by planetscape (Chancellor) on May 29, 2006 at 11:45 UTC | |
Re: screen scraping
by xern (Beadle) on May 28, 2006 at 17:27 UTC |