# adwordsDebugGermanOem.pl use strict; use HTTP::Request::Common; # HTTP handling use LWP::UserAgent; # HTTP handling my $query = 'brse'; my $www; #doesn't work. #sends $query = 'brse'; $www = google_keyword_suggestions_html_debug('de', 'de', $query); open F, "> doesntwork.html" or die "Cannot open."; print F $www->content,"\n"; close F; #works -- keyword suggestions are retrieved #sends $query = 'brse'; #keyword suggestions are retrieved, although the html is kind of warped looking. $query = germanchars_to_strange_html_chars($query); $www = google_keyword_suggestions_html_debug('de', 'de', $query); open F, "> works.html" or die "Cannot open."; print F $www->content,"\n"; close F; # returns $www object containing html for a successful code, or an error code sub google_keyword_suggestions_html_debug { my $language = shift; my $country = shift; my $query = shift; #this could be a list, but leaving it as a single word. maybe change later. my $action = POST 'https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordSandbox', [ 'save' => "save", 'wizard_name' => "keywordsandbox_wizard", 'language' => $language, 'country' => $country, 'keywords' => $query, ]; my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; $ua->agent('Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)'); $ua->timeout(30); my $www = $ua->request( $action ); return $www; } # Takes a variable and spits it back out with the proper german characters sub germanchars_to_strange_html_chars { my $var = shift; my %table = ( '' => 'Y', '' => '', '' => '', '' => '', '' => '', '' => 'Ǭ', '' => 'Ǭ'); while (my ($k,$v) = each %table) { $var =~ s/$k/$v/g; } return $var; }