Hi Guys, I've been really struggling with this and could use some help. It's frustrating, because I can use google's dev tools, and using jQuery, go in and pick out the variables I need. That being said, I'm open to any suggestions on how to get this done - preferably using perl, but that's not entirely necessary. Here's where I'm at.

Based on suggestions I've rec'd, I decided to make a go with Mechanize::Firefox. So far, I've been able to get my program to open firefox and go to the correct page. The problems come when I need to execute some actions. Once it gets to the page, here's what I'd like it to do:

From the HTML source code, I've found that there is a javascript object variable that I'd like to parse. It appears to be setup as a hex with keys. Since it renders to html, I assume I should be able to parse it and pull the data I need? Here is the code from the site:

      <script type="text/javascript">
          Realtime.setPusherDelay(0); var myContests = [{"n":"Fantasy 
+League","a":20.0000,"id":334455"},
</script>

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So basically, how would I go in there and pull the 'n:' variable or the 'id' variable? TIA :)

I love it when a program comes together - jdhannibal

In reply to Project Help: Mechanize::Firefox - Scraping Websites with Javascript by jdlev

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