Re^7: fetching and storing data from web.

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Re^8: fetching and storing data from web. by Corion (Patriarch) on Jan 27, 2012 at 14:46 UTC
I try to make using WWW::Mechanize::Firefox easy. Please tell me what you found unusable about the WWW::Mechanize::Firefox documentation, and especially WWW::Mechabize::Firefox::Examples and WWW::Mechanize::Firefox::Troubleshooting. They get distributed with the module itself. Searching for www::mechanize::firefox examples also returns that document on CPAN as the first hit to me, so if you tell me what search engine you used, or why you disregarded that result, I can use that information to improve the documentation.	[reply]
Re^9: fetching and storing data from web. by chessgui (Scribe) on Jan 27, 2012 at 15:14 UTC
It took me two hours to build the module on Win32. I got so frustrated that I've just put the name of the module to the search engine in the hope to get something working. If I do a proper search the first hit is the examples page you mentioned so no problem there. By the way grats for your module: it is really business like. Automatically looking up the form suitable for the given fields is really handy. I know what I mean: I parse forms manually from web pages and when the structure of the page changes ( form 5 suddenly becomes form 4 ) the whole application fails.	[reply]
Re^8: fetching and storing data from web. by choroba (Cardinal) on Jan 27, 2012 at 14:05 UTC
It uses the same API as WWW::Mechanize, so just see WWW::Mechanize::Examples.	[reply]
Re^9: fetching and storing data from web. by chessgui (Scribe) on Jan 27, 2012 at 14:39 UTC
Thanks. By reworking one of the examples I was able to put together a code which opens the Firefox browser, loads the CPAN search page, fills in the query field with 'WWW::Mechanize' and then submits the form: `#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; # the module we're looking for my $module_name = 'WWW::Mechanize'; # create a new browser use WWW::Mechanize::Firefox; my $browser = WWW::Mechanize::Firefox->new( launch => 'C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/firefox.exe',tab=>'cur +rent' ); # tell it to get the main page $browser->get("http://search.cpan.org/"); # submit the query form $browser->submit_form(with_fields=>{query=>$module_name});` [download]	[reply] [d/l]