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HTLM::FormParser seems the right module for this problem

From the readme file: This module can be used to parse HTML text for forms. Each type of tag that is commonly found in a form (such as input, select, textarea etc) will trigger callbacks provided at the application level.

The callback routines can then be used to cobble together the URL.

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Re: Re: Automating an HTML form submission with only required user info
by tommyw (Hermit) on Dec 19, 2002 at 10:30 UTC

    HTML::Form is simpler to use for this sort of thing than HTML::FormParser (and comes with LWP, so it's probably more available). 

    my $form=HTML::Form->parse($page, $url);
$form->find_input('q1')->value($target);
return $form->click;

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    This will extract the first form from the HTML held in $page ($url is used to resolve relative URLs), and then q1 has its value set to $target. Finally, we return an HTTP::Request object (representing the form submission). If you want to turn this into a URL, then invoke uri_as_string on it.

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