use selector method with WWW::Mechanize

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Hello Monks! I am trying to retrieve the html of a specific div in my perl script after WWW::Mechanize call. This is the code I am using:

use WWW::Mechanize;
$mech->get ("$url");
print Dumper $mech->content();  #This prints everything, I only want t
+he div with id '#div_id_test'
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How can I do that? I tried to use selector method of WWW::Mechanize::Plugin::Selector:
use WWW::Mechanize::Plugin::Selector; $mech->selector('#div_id_test');
but it keeps telling me Can't locate object method "selector" via package "WWW::Mechanize" !

Any thoughts?

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Re: use selector method with WWW::Mechanize by Corion (Patriarch) on Nov 18, 2015 at 15:40 UTC
Although the name is quite suggestive, WWW::Mechanize::Plugin::Selector does not plug into WWW::Mechanize. I recommend instead taking the code from the source of that module and using that source code directly.	[reply]