gmail from perl

smalhotra has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: gmail from perl by perrin (Chancellor) on Jun 14, 2004 at 18:37 UTC
Just use HTTP::Recorder to generate a WWW::Mechanize script that does it.	[reply]
This does not work by McMahon (Chaplain) on Jun 14, 2004 at 19:56 UTC
Apropos of some recent discussions, I've got HTTP::Recorder working right now, and clicking on Javascript thingies creates only a blank line in the output log, for instance: `$agent->get("http://www.oreilly.com/"); #go to oreilly.com #click on upper-right JS thingie; noth +ing logged $agent->get("http://www.oreilly.com/"); #back button` [download] If I'm missing something, please set me straight-- but I see no evidence that anything done with Javascript is captured at all by HTTP::Recorder or HTTP::Proxy.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: This does not work by perrin (Chancellor) on Jun 14, 2004 at 21:08 UTC
My guess would be that it doesn't log anything because it doesn't actually do anything that involves the server. That means it can be ignored, if the goal of the script is to grab some data from the server.	[reply]
Re^2: This does not work by McMahon (Chaplain) on Jun 14, 2004 at 21:12 UTC
Re^3: This does not work by perrin (Chancellor) on Jun 14, 2004 at 21:51 UTC
Re: gmail from perl by DaWolf (Curate) on Jun 14, 2004 at 16:43 UTC
Interesting question but... Actually gmail is not available for "mere mortals" yet, so it's kinda hard to tell which JavaScript tricks it uses or not... I think it's better to wait for gmail public availability so you can get your answers. Best regards, my ($author_nickname, $author_email) = ("DaWolf","erabbott\@terra.com.br") if ($author_name eq "Er Galvão Abbott");	[reply]
Re: gmail from perl by chanio (Priest) on Jun 15, 2004 at 04:48 UTC
yosucker Having heard that it might work very similarly to Yahoo mail, you could have this perl script as a reference. Note: what is really certain is that Yahoo handles a lot of its pages with great and sofisticated Javascript. https://sourceforge.net/projects/yosucker/ .{\('v')/} _`(___)' __________________________	[reply]