I would like to avoid having to depend on IE for my utility I'm writing but unfortunately I can't figure out how to do the same with the WWW::Mechanize module. Does anyone know how to make the following code work under WWW::Mechanize? I've read that it doesn't support javascript so I'm not sure if it's possible or not...but with Perl I suspect it is possible somehow :) 
use warnings;
use strict;

use Win32::IE::Mechanize;
my $ie;

my $id = ' 14632';
my $max_page = 9;

$ie = Win32::IE::Mechanize->new( visible => 0 );

my $url = 'http://myspace.com/Modules/ViewFriends/FriendsView.aspx?%3f
+fuseacion=user.viewfriends&friendID=' . $id;

$ie->get( $url );

sleep 1;

my $count = 0;
my $i = 0;
    
for (1..$max_page) {
    scrape_page($_, $max_page);
}

sub scrape_page {
    
    my ($page, $max) = @_;

    print "Looking at $page ...\n";

    if ($page > 1 ) {

    $ie->follow_link( url => 'javascript:__doPostBack(\'ctl00$cpMain$p
+agerBottom\',\'' . $page . '\')' );

    }

    sleep 1;

    my @data = split(/\n/, $ie->content());
    foreach (@data) {
    chomp;
    if (/<A href=\"http:\/\/profile\.myspace\.com\/index\.cfm\?fuseact
+ion=user.viewprofile&amp;friendid=(.*?)\">(.*?)<\/A><BR>/i) {
        print "ID: $1\n";
    }   
    }
}

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