Chromium is injecting HTML tags into css and js files that I am getting with the WWW::Mechanize::Chrome->get() method. Example: 

<html><head></head><body><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-spac
+e: pre-wrap;">
  @font-face {
    font-family: 'nyt-stymie';

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Worse, it is encoding all the downloaded files with html entities. I tried to fix this by decoding the html entities but I'm finding the javascript files don't seem to like that much. I also tried using headless chromium but that didn't help.

Is there any way to get the pure, unadulterated css an js files using WWW::Mechanize::Chrome? 

use strict;
use warnings;
use WWW::Mechanize::Chrome;

my $mech =  WWW::Mechanize::Chrome->new();

$mech->get('https://www.nytimes.com/vi-assets/static-assets/vendor-454
+814a0340940dc9b42.js');
my $content = $mech->content;
use Data::Dumper qw(Dumper);
print Dumper $content;

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So I've tried downloading the files directly to disk with $mech->get($ur, ':content_file' => $file;. Didn't work. I tried $mech->get(format => 'text'). This crashed the browser.

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In reply to Getting "raw" jss and css code from server using WWW::Mechanize::Chrome by nysus

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