Take a look at the HTML Parser modules on CPAN. In the past I have successfully used HTML::Parser to extract data, links, etc. It is actually very easy to use once you understand it enough. Below I have included a simple module that will return all text snippets found within a document. This would not be hard to modify to permit using the POST method. As for your javascript problem, I am not sure what you mean by "javascript which has to be parsed through, in order to reach the final page". 

package ExtractText;

use strict;
use Exporter ();
use HTML::Parser;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use Carp qw( croak );

our ( @ISA ) = qw( Exporter );
our ( @EXPORT_OK ) = qw( extract_text );

sub extract_text {
    shift( @_ ) if ( $_[0] eq 'ExtractText' );
    my $uri = shift;

    die( "Single parameter to extract_links() must be a URI to process
+" )
        unless ( defined( $uri ) );

    my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
    my $res = $ua->get( $uri );

    croak( "Fetch of '$uri' failed: ", $res->status_line() )
        unless( $res->code() == 200 );

    my $parser = HTML::Parser->new(
        text_h => [ \&_parser_text, 'self,dtext,is_cdata' ]
    );
    $parser->parse( $res->content() );

    return( @{ $parser->{_extracted} } );
}

sub _parser_text {
    my ($self, $dtext, $is_cdata) = @_;

    push( @{ $self->{_extracted} }, $dtext )
        unless ( $is_cdata );
}

1;

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Example usage: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use ExtractText qw( extract_text );

my @text_snippets = extract_text(
    'http://www.perlmonks.org'
);

print @text_snippets;

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In reply to Re: Links for Screen Scraping by saskaqueer
in thread Links for Screen Scraping by Agyeya

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