Opening a website with perl and then starting a search?

cyates has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Just a quick question, I'm working on a project controlling inventory for my company and recently we've needed to incorporate some information from the product's website. So, naturally, I constructed a program that creates a link to the product's site. Can anyone think of a way to iniate a search on the product website for, say, the part number?

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Re: Opening a website with perl and then starting a search? by Anonymous Monk on Jul 01, 2013 at 02:51 UTC
Can anyone think of a way to iniate a search on the product website for, say, the part number? Sure, step one, figure out what that means in terms of protocols ( learn about the internet, Web Programming: For Beginners, to get an overall picture of how the internet works, how tcp/ip, sockets, websites, html, ajax, all fit together. ), Step two, SMOP, whether that is opening a new search url of some sort, or http://perltuts.com/tutorials/web-scraping-with-lwp, or something else entirely	[reply]
Re^2: Opening a website with perl and then starting a search? by cyates (Novice) on Jul 14, 2013 at 01:19 UTC
Hm, interesting method. WWW::Mechanize worked better than scraping with LWP for me however	[reply]