trusty (3) WWW::Mechanize::Cookbook.3pm.gz

NAME

       WWW::Mechanize::Cookbook - Recipes for using WWW::Mechanize

INTRODUCTION

       First, please note that many of these are possible just using LWP::UserAgent.  Since "WWW::Mechanize" is
       a subclass of LWP::UserAgent, whatever works on "LWP::UserAgent" should work on "WWW::Mechanize".  See
       the lwpcook man page included with the libwww-perl distribution.

BASICS

   Launch the WWW::Mechanize browser
           use WWW::Mechanize;

           my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new( autocheck => 1 );

       The "autocheck => 1" tells Mechanize to die if any IO fails, so you don't have to manually check.  It's
       easier that way.  If you want to do your own error checking, leave it out.

   Fetch a page
           $mech->get( "http://search.cpan.org" );
           print $mech->content;

       "$mech->content" contains the raw HTML from the web page.  It is not parsed or handled in any way, at
       least through the "content" method.

   Fetch a page into a file
       Sometimes you want to dump your results directly into a file.  For example, there's no reason to read a
       JPEG into memory if you're only going to write it out immediately.  This can also help with memory issues
       on large files.

           $mech->get( "http://www.cpan.org/src/stable.tar.gz",
                       ":content_file" => "stable.tar.gz" );

   Fetch a password-protected page
       Generally, just call "credentials" before fetching the page.

           $mech->credentials( 'admin' => 'password' );
           $mech->get( 'http://10.11.12.13/password.html' );
           print $mech->content();

LINKS

   Find all image links
       Find all links that point to a JPEG, GIF or PNG.

           my @links = $mech->find_all_links(
               tag => "a", url_regex => qr/\.(jpe?g|gif|png)$/i );

   Find all download links
       Find all links that have the word "download" in them.

           my @links = $mech->find_all_links(
               tag => "a", text_regex => qr/\bdownload\b/i );

APPLICATIONS

   Check all pages on a web site
       Use Abe Timmerman's WWW::CheckSite <http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-CheckSite/>

SEE ALSO

       WWW::Mechanize

AUTHORS

       Copyright 2005-2010 Andy Lester "<andy@petdance.com>"

       Later contributions by Peter Scott, Mark Stosberg and others.  See Acknowledgements section in
       WWW::Mechanize for more.