Oh Monks:

I use the web a lot to do searching for patents, and literature related to patents. I've been using LWP::Mechanize to automate google searching and Patent Office retrievals, and I've been using HTML::Display to present the html results for easy viewing before I go on to process the reusults in perl.

It occurs to me that it would be nice to have a mirror function to HTML::Display that would allow me to use the browser I've first invoked to display information (using HTML::Display) to also act as a way of inputting what information I want to retrieve (using buttons and mouseclicks) and then have some way of sending that information on to perl. I.e., I'd like to pop up a browser to either display, to act as an interface for input to perl using the graphical inputs on the html code I write for the browser, or both. All of this would be to have the browser act to do perl I/O, an alternative to something like Perl/Tk.

Is this possible? Are there any modules that would handle this? I'm using the browser I'm invoking only for I/O, not for web access, so I don't know whether selenium or something like that would work ... any ideas would be most appreciated.

I should add that I'm agnostic about choice of browser or operating system, although probably Firefox and Ubuntu would be my preference.

-Eager Supplicant-

In reply to Using a browser as an interface to display and also submit info to perl by patentattorney

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