Thanks Gangabass.

That approach would have been my preference, from looking at Anonymous Monk's posts, it may be too hard for me.

Hi again Gangabass,

Partly for those who may follow, I just thought I should report back that I did end up using your proposed method with Firebug, and didn't need PhantomJS. I clicked Firebug's "Net" option, then "Persist" and "All", then clicked the "Add to Report" (JavaScript) button on the webpage. Firebug then showed "POST addcclactivityfromsearch" in its "URL" column, so I pointed my mouse at that and it gave me a full URL (i.e. "http://olr.ccli.com/search/addcclactivityfromsearch"). I could then click that link and look under the "Post" tab to see parameters and values sent, (OR right-click the link and "Copy POST Parameters" and paste them where I like). From that, I was able to remove some redundant parameters, and write this code, which seems to be working fine.

$rc = $m->post('http://olr.ccli.com/search/addcclactivityfromsearch',
{
  'ActivityIndex'    => -1,
  'DigitalCount'     => $use,
  'ReportingPeriod'  => $period,
  'SongUniqueId'     => $songid,
  'X-Requested-With' => 'XMLHttpRequest'
});
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Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

I might still use PhantomJS someday, but have some outstanding issues, as you can see below, so I might need to raise them again, somewhere more...visible.

tel2

... I did end up using your proposed method with Firebug ...

Also mentioned in WWW::Mechanize::FAQ -- its just full of nuggets :)

.... FAQ ...

WWW::Mechanize::FAQ says it doesn't support javascript ...

mechanize javascript -> WWW::Mechanize and buttons tied to javascript

use WWW::Mechanize::Firefox or WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS

Thanks Anonymous Monk!

Having had a look at the links you've provided, I decided to give WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS a try.

I installed the current version (0.06) on the commercial webhost that I use, using the cPanel webhosting control panel. The server is CentOS. I could not see any errors during the installation - it looked as if it installed OK. I then tried a couple of examples, including the first one at the top of the documentation page, and it fails. I then added warnings and strict, and here's the resulting code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS;
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS->new();
$mech->get('http://google.com');

$mech->eval_in_page('alert("Hello PhantomJS")');
my $png= $mech->content_as_png();
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Can't exec "phantomjs": No such file or directory at /home/tel2/perl5/
+lib/perl5/WWW/Mechanize/PhantomJS.pm line 101.
Couldn't launch [| phantomjs /home/tel2/perl5/lib/perl5/WWW/Mechanize/
+PhantomJS/ghostdriver/main.js --PhantomJS=8910 --logLevel=OFF]: No su
+ch file or directory / 0 at /home/tel2/perl5/lib/perl5/WWW/Mechanize/
+PhantomJS.pm line 101.
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Here is that section of code in PhantomJS.pm:

    # Launch PhantomJs
    $options{ launch_exe } ||= 'phantomjs';
    (my $ghostdir_default= __FILE__) =~ s!\.pm$!!;
    $ghostdir_default= File::Spec->catfile( $ghostdir_default, 'ghostd
+river', 'main.js' );
    $options{ launch_ghostdir } ||= $ghostdir_default;
    $options{ launch_arg } ||= [];
    push @{ $options{ launch_arg }}, "--PhantomJS=$options{ port }";
    push @{ $options{ launch_arg }}, "--logLevel=\U$options{ log }";
    my $cmd= "| $options{ launch_exe } $options{ launch_ghostdir } @{ 
+$options{ launch_arg } }";
    #warn $cmd;
    $options{ pid } ||= open my $fh, $cmd
        or die "Couldn't launch [$cmd]: $! / $?";
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I've googled a bit for answers, but nothing yet. Any ideas what the problem is, or how to fix this?

Thanks again.
tel2

Did you install phantom.js, too?
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No, choroba, I didn't realise it was a pre-requisite, but thanks for the pointer!

I have now downloaded it from https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-1.9.7-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2, and temporarily extracted it to my local tmp directory.

I can't see any installation instructions. The README.md file just says:
"- **Easy to install**: {Download}(http://phantomjs.org/download.html), unpack, and start having fun in just 5 minutes."

I haven't been able to find more installation instructions on the website.

I assume I need to make it so WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS can see & use it? How???

If I run it from the command line, it seems to run, but I get a warning each time, e.g.:


$ bin/phantomjs -h
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
(and then I get the help listing)
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Any ideas about that? I saw it mentioned via Google, couldn't see an answer, yet.

Thanks again.
tel2