heres some code that i did .... 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize;

my $q = $ARGV[0] || die("\nusage : ".$0." query 3 spaces\n\n");
$q .= ' '.$ARGV[1] if ($ARGV[1]);
$q .= ' '.$ARGV[2] if ($ARGV[2]);

my $url = 'http://www.google.co.uk';
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(agent => "WWW");
$mech->get($url);
$mech->submit_form(form_name => 'f',fields => {'q' => $q}, button => '
+btnG');

for my $i (1..200) {
  print "page : ".$i."\n";
  dosomat($mech->content);
  my $next = $mech->find_link( text_regex => qr/Next$/, url_regex => q
+r/^\/search\?/) or die("finished on page : ".$i."\n");
  $mech->get($url.$next->url);
}

exit(0);


sub dosomat {
  my ($content) = @_;
  my @cont = $content =~ m{<div class=g(.*?)</div>}gsi;

  for my $i (0..$#cont) {
    print $cont[$i]."\n\n\n";
  }
}

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i had the same problem, found that the link had div tags within it.

google wont let me use there services since i ran this script a couple of times, :(

In reply to Re: Mech follow_link by jonsmith1982
in thread Mech follow_link by Sailor99

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