Hello ! I am very new to scraping and right now I am writing my first script to get some data from a website. What I am trying to do is to navigate through all the pages, I think you know what I mean, those pages like Page1, Page2... My problem is that I don't know how to find what is the number of the last page in order to make all the parsing in a loop. Any help or ideas would be very appreciated ! I can tell you that I have counted 13 pages. The data is info about persons in a company. What happends is that every time I click the next page a post method is generated, and I noticed that only the post parameters change. So I was thinking to call the post method from a loop and pass all the post arguments, and change only the value for __EVENTARGUMENT which will get the number of the page. The url for all the pages remains the same

In reply to Navigating through pages using WWW::Mechanize by cliff_t

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