Perl is huge. It's used in a lot of diverse places. Web scraping is huge. It's done all the time. Javascript is huge. It's ubiquitous in the context of the web. WWW::Mechanize doesn't directly handle Javascript. The number of people who have encountered this issue is also huge. It's a highly searchable topic that has been answered many times -- a FAQ (which might explain the beating you're taking in votes right now). And it's also why the POD for WWW::Mechanize has the following:

Please note that Mech does NOT support JavaScript, you need additional software for that. Please check "JavaScript" in WWW::Mechanize::FAQ for more.

In the WWW::Mechanize::FAQ you will find a section titled "JavaScript". There's a good explanation there on how it may be possible to simply provide the proper get/post requests instead of relying on JavaScript parsing to deal with the website. But it also has a subcategory, "Which modules work like Mechanize and have JavaScript support?". You'll find some good suggestions there on how to proceed.


Dave

In reply to Re: Perl auto completing forms by davido
in thread Perl auto completing forms by DamianMyers

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.