Folks,

I've subscribed our dept. to the Safari online bookshelf. I would like to get regular informations in an automatic way about which books are on bookshelves, for each user, so that it is possible to make a list and perhaps share some (eg. instead of one developer adding the same book as somebody else) to perhaps obtain an optimal use of the service.

My question is, how could Perl and the CPAN help me in doing this ? The task, as I imagine, would be to automatically log on a user account, then go to the bookshelf section and grab all the book titles.

To grab the book titles I could use one of the HTML or XML modules to traverse the page and get to the tags representing the books, but what about the automatic login and the command to go to the bookshelf section ?

Thanks for any comments/suggestions.

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