Hello all. Here is my problem. I am trying to automate a ratings list for our local table tennis club. I can manually download the USATT ratings for our state at 'http://www.usatt.org', but I don't know how to automate this. Actually, I am now to the point that I don't really know how to approach it. I originally thought I could go to the state ratings page and somehow download the frames, however, that web address doesn't work (because it is automatically generated?). If I go directly to the address, I get the error "Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a0005' Invalid procedure call or argument: 'left' /history/index2.asp, line 17 ". I guess my new approach would be to have a script actually do a search by state to get to the page then download the frames, but I don't how to do that, or if it is possible. I am fairly new to Perl, so I don't even know if this is supposed to be easy. I have searched for various modules and found WWW::Mechanize::Frames and LWP::UserAgent::FramesReady, but haven't figured it out. I could probably use wget to grab everything, but that seems like major overkill. I would appreciate some ideas as to what to do. Thanks, Scott

In reply to Frame download by Anonymous Monk

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.