It might be simpler to get WWW::Mechanize::Shell to write a WWW::Mechanize program for you. It's pretty slick. Mechanize makes a "virtual browser" that hides most of the boring details of a browsing session behind the scenes. The Shell lets you drive it with a series of easy-to-type commands, and can optionally keep a browser synced with the current rendering. When you're done, you say "spit out a program", and it spits out a Mechanize program to repeat the same steps.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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