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This sounds like a JavaScript question. It also sounds like you’re trying to hack an auction, contest, or reservation system. All of which would certainly be against the ToS of any such site and, depending on the locality and service domain, maybe illegal as well.

More details would be necessary to help you if I’m wrong. Probably no amount of details would get any monk to help you if I’m right. :P

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by Marcool (Acolyte) on Apr 02, 2016 at 17:12 UTC
    Hi,
    I should have thought to say: this is not an auction or such, it is a website that I perform translation on, and basically, translations are handed out on a "first come first served" basis. There is no mention of automation in the ToS (which is public, located at legal/translator-agreement on their website : gengo.com if you care to verify).
    Now, I understand if you consider it foul play to automate the accepting of translations, but the way I see it, is that I am located in Europe, and the servers seem to be in the US (according to geomaplookup.net) which I would expect gives people there a technological edge (to transfer the page it takes my browser 4.4 seconds) not very different from the one scripting the response would give.
    The reason I took to writing this in perl is because there are other conditions to verify (several translations might appear and I want to chose the "best" one in that case, I am using HTML::Treebuilder to work through the html), and having tried in javascript I found it was too far out of the little I know about the language. I feel more comfortable in perl although I am by no means experienced with it.
    As I said, I understand if people are not happy helping with this. It is not a very big deal for me, I am just using this as a "project" to practice my programming, as much as anything else. Although I do believe this is perfectly legal and fair.
    Thank you for your input.
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      I toured the site a bit. It seems to be a pay-for-play service. How are you finding free translations there?

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        Oh I am a translator, not using it for translation.
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