Forgive me for my intrusion on the wise PerlMonks, but am in need of guidance for a newbie.

What I'm attempting to do is login to amazon.com with my account and then download a copy of their products page. I need to be logged in in order to see all of the prices listed.

This originally worked last week, but after making no changes to it, it stopped today.

I was not able to login directly to amazon.com as their login page was not being submitted no matter what I tried. So I used their affiliate login page and was able to successfully login and can confirm this by the page returned. But I no longer stay logged in when I try to download the different products page.

Thanks so much in advance for any help that can be provided. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use WWW::Mechanize;
use HTTP::Cookies;

my $url = "https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/";
my $appurl = "https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/videogames";

my $username = 'xxxxx';
my $password = 'xxxxx';

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(autocheck => 1);
$mech->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new());
$mech->get($url);
$mech->form_name('sign_in');
$mech->field(email => $username);
$mech->field(password => $password);
$mech->submit();

my $login_content = $mech->content();

# go to an amazon url
$mech->get($appurl);
my $app_content = $mech->content();

open(IFP,"> amazontest.html ");
     print IFP $app_content;
     close IFP;

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