www::mech looking for specific form action

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I have a page I want to automate but the form doesn't have a name/id and the form number changes cause it's dynamic. The form ACTION of this form is "http://www.lyricsdownload.com". Is there any way using WWW::Mech I can search for this?

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Re: www::mech looking for specific form action by davidrw (Prior) on Jun 30, 2006 at 03:25 UTC
yup -- search through the `$mech->forms` array (elements are HTML::Form objects) for the one you want (yes could be slightly more efficient w/a loop instead of grep). `my @forms = $mech->forms; my ($form_number) = grep { $forms[$_-1]->action eq 'http://www.lyricsd +ownload.com' } 1 .. @forms; $mech->submit_form( form_number => $form_number, fields => { ... }, );` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]