Here is the code. I m reading zipcodes from a spreadsheet and scrapping data related to that zipcode from a website.

use strict;
use warnings;
use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel;
use WWW::Mechanize;
use HTML::Form;

#Variable declaration
my ( $zicodes_file , $website , $xls_parser , $xls_workbook ,
     $xls_worksheet, $row_min , $row_max , $col_min , $col_max , @zip_
+codes ,
     $mech , @zip_inputs , $input , @dealer_links );

#Variable Initialization
$zicodes_file = shift
              or die "1st Cmd Param(zipcodes spreadsheet) Missing..Exi
+ting!!";
$website = shift
              or die "2nd Cmd Param(honda dealer website) Missing..Exi
+ting!!";

#STEP - 1 - Read in zipcodes from Zipcodes Spreadsheet
$xls_parser   = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel->new();
$xls_workbook = $xls_parser->parse( $zicodes_file );
die $xls_parser->error(), ".\n" if ( !defined $xls_workbook );
##ZipCodes are in 2nd worksheet
$xls_worksheet = $xls_workbook->worksheet(1);
( $row_min, $row_max ) = $xls_worksheet->row_range();
( $col_min, $col_max ) = $xls_worksheet->col_range();
for my $row ( 1 .. $row_max ) {

    my $col  = 0; #Zipcodes are in first column
    my $cell = $xls_worksheet->get_cell( $row, $col );
    next unless $cell;
    push @zip_codes,$cell->value();

}

#STEP - 2 - Read in related data for zipcodes using the website
$mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$mech->get( $website );
die "Could not fetch $website ",
                          $mech->status," \n" if ( !$mech->success );
$mech->form_name( 'searchdealer' );
@zip_inputs = $mech->find_all_inputs(
                           type => 'text',
                           id   => 'searchform_txt_zip',
              );
#testing with only one zip code
$input = $zip_inputs[0];
$input->value( $zip_codes[ 0 ] );

$mech->submit;

@dealer_links = $mech->find_all_links(
                    url_regex => qr/results.+?dealer\=\d+$/i,
                );
$mech->get( $dealer_links[0]->[0] );
print $mech->content;

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I don't see any method in Mechanize that can help me parse the data in div html tags.

In reply to Re^2: Web scraping by libvenus
in thread Web scraping by libvenus

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