Dearest Monks,

I once again return to the monastery for monk wisdom.

I have been working with WWW::Mechanize. My goal is to browse through my brokerage account and scrape pages and fill our forms to get stock information. I realize I have a lot of challenging work before me in terms of dealing with returned cookies and such in order to finally get in. All I want to get to right now is the point where I can see that I have pulled down the logon page and actually submit my user/pass. Then I can worry (and learn) about the cookies and other verification issues that need to be addressed.

I have read over Mechanize and see its power, but must confess my general lack of fluency with object oriented programming. I have mostly been using perl for link extraction and regex.

So now I am trying to learn some new stuff.

So I know where to start (straight from the docs with simple modifications) ... 

use WWW::Mechanize;
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$url = "http://www.omniomix.com";
$mech->get( $url );
$mech->content( format => "text" );
print $mech;

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In the above code I was trying to get a view of the url text that (I had hoped) was extracted.

I got ... 

Can't locate HTML/TreeBuilder.pm in @INC [...] at /usr/lib/perl5/site_
+perl/5.8.3/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 496.

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And when I do this ... 

my $res = $ua->request(HTTP::Request->new(GET => "http://www.yahoo.no"
+));
print $res;

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I get this ...

LWP::UserAgent=HASH(0x8a415e8)HTTP::Response=HASH(0x8c1df48)

dudes, monks, I am lost.

Any words of wisdom that might help me in my quest would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks Monks,

Chris Herold

In reply to Working with WWW::Mechanize by cdherold

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