Hi,

i'm creating a web crawler and using www::mechanize::link to extract links from content.

Everything almost works fine, but i can't get attributes of link.

Fragment of code is 
use WWW::Mechanize;
use Data::Dumper;
use DBI;
...
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(
        stack_depth => 0,
        autocheck   => 0,
        onerror => undef,
        );

$mech->timeout(30);
$mech->agent_alias( 'Windows IE 6' ); 
$mech->max_redirect( 0 );
        $mech->get("http://".$placement_page_url);

...

my @links = $mech->links(); 
foreach $link (@links)
{
...                            
print $link->attrs." attrs\n";
%dump = Dumper $link->attrs;
print %dump;
...
}

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I can parse almost every infromation about links. I get url_abs, base, text, tag etc. But for attributes there is a hash ref. I can display it trough Data::Dumper but how to extract values from it? I need attributes like "rel" and "title". How to extract it? Simply hash ref, key->value doesn't work.

Monks, i'm hoping, that someone knows how read from attributes and can help me.

artche

In reply to Getting link attributes from WWW::Mechanize? by artche

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