It's probably, as
bikeNomad says, some form submissions
and some HTML scraping. You might need to use cookies, too,
which is something
LWP::UserAgent supports if you tell
it to:
my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
$ua->cookie_jar(new HTTP::Cookies);
Once your program has "logged in" to Yahoo mail, you will
get a cookie, not unlike PerlMonks. You can use this to
access subsequent pages over a period of time. Although
the Yahoo cookie seems to linger around for quite some
time, they will ask for your password on a regular basis
just to keep you honest, so always be on the lookout for
that kind of stuff.
When it comes to parsing the page itself, you could either
go with
HTML::Parser, which is a fine tool indeed, but
when it comes to cracking tables,
HTML::TableExtract is
much more powerful. Oddly enough,
HTML::TableExtract was
developed, apparently, to get data out of
Yahoo's
finance site. If
you tell it the headers of the columns you want, TableExtract
will give you an array back that contains the table data.
Maybe this should be Mail::Yahoo or something.