Hi Monks,
(Sorry, its a bit lengthy!)
At the risk of sounding crazy, my situation is this: I have a web page with a table of names which are text links to other pages. Each of these links has to be opened and saved as a seperate HTML file. I wont be able to use "ahref" tag to identify links because the names lead to a Java Script which fetchs data from a database and populates it into a template webpage (so the link of each name will lead to the same URL) Manually saving 14,000 pages is a nightmare for me!

So I wanted to build a "text search and mouse click" action i.e. a script that would
1. Search for a list of names in a browser (which has been extracted with HTML::TableExtract)
2. On finding a match, trigger a mouse click on the name in the browser
3. Save the opened page
4. Go back to the previous page (homepage)
5. Search for the next name on the list and go on.

I am not sure how to trigger a mouse click in Perl if it is possible (Im quite sure I can manage the rest)
Please help me out in finding my way out of this problem.

Thanks,
Eshwar.

In reply to Is it possible to trigger a mouse click action in a browser using Perl? by eshwar

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