Re^5: WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS can't click button

You will have better results when you set a user-agent string and/or a file for persisting cookies like so:

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS->new(
        'cookie_file' => 'cookies.txt'
);
$mech->add_header(
         # use a proper string from somewhere or your own browser
        'User-Agent' => 'Mozilla/5.0 ... bla bla bla'
);
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I said "and/or cookie file" because I could not find the cookie file on current dir - i don't know where it may be stored if at all

Regarding POSTing with LWP, it seems viable.

bw, bliako

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Re^6: WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS can't click button by tel2 (Pilgrim) on May 02, 2021 at 09:00 UTC
Thanks again, bliako. I might try that sometime. I seem to recall trying cookies last year when I was trying to get this working, but I should make sure and also try changing the user-agent as you've suggested.	[reply]
Re^7: WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS can't click button by bliako (Abbot) on May 02, 2021 at 19:59 UTC
for the record, what I suggested worked for me. What was important was the UA string, cookies-file did not make a difference and did not see them saved on disk. PhantomJS seems to keep session cookies on memory. So that angle is covered. You need to be explicit on UA though.	[reply]