perl post data to form?

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

I dont know if this is possible through perl (if not I'll write a VB program that grabs the info and passes it to perl) but I need to write a perl program that posts a user name and password to a form, and then after the user is logged in, the next pages html code is stored in a variable

The reason I need to do this is, I'm automating my Ebay account and I want it to log into my account, grab the first webpage and email all the winning bidders a URL on where to download their programs. I can do the latter part of the program myself using snippits of code (I never really got to far into perl) but I dont know how to post data to a form and get the next web page. any help would be greatly apreachiated!
thanks

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Re: perl post data to form? by gube (Parson) on Sep 08, 2005 at 04:41 UTC
`use WWW::Mechanize; my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(); $mech->get('https://www.paypal.com/us'); $mech->submit_form( form_number => 1, fields => { login_email => 'sss', login_password => 'sss', } ); die unless ($mech->success); print $mech->content();` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: perl post data to form? by NetWallah (Canon) on Sep 08, 2005 at 04:37 UTC
Check out this article at Developer.com for info on how to scrape eBay using WWW::Mechanize. "Man cannot live by bread alone... He'd better have some goat cheese and wine to go with it!"	[reply]
Re: perl post data to form? by saintmike (Vicar) on Sep 08, 2005 at 04:44 UTC
If you'd rather comply with their TOS and use their API, check their developer page. Rumor has it it's free now.	[reply]
Re: perl post data to form? by sk (Curate) on Sep 08, 2005 at 04:34 UTC
WWW::Mechanize	[reply]