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NAME

WWW::Mechanize::Examples - Sample programs that use WWW::Mechanize

SYNOPSIS

Plenty of people have learned WWW::Mechanize, and now, you can too!

Following are user-supplied samples of WWW::Mechanize in action. If you have samples you'd like to contribute, please send 'em to mechanize@petdance.com.

You can also look at the t/*.t files in the distribution.

Please note that these examples are not intended to do any specific task. For all I know, they're no longer functional because the sites they hit have changed. They're here to give examples of how people have used WWW::Mechanize.

Note that the examples are in reverse order of my having received them, so the freshest examples are always at the top.

cpansearch.pl, by Ed Silva

A quick little utility to search the CPAN and fire up a browser with a results page.

#!/usr/bin/perl

# turn on perl's safety features
use strict;
use warnings;

# work out the name of the module we're looking for
my $module_name = $ARGV[0]
  or die "Must specify module name on command line";

# create a new browser
use WWW::Mechanize;
my $browser = WWW::Mechanize->new();

# tell it to get the main page
$browser->get("http://search.cpan.org/");

# okay, fill in the box with the name of the
# module we want to look up
$browser->form(1);
$browser->field("query", $module_name);
$browser->click();

# click on the link that matches the module name
$browser->follow($module_name);

my $url = $browser->uri;

# launch a browser...
system('galeon', $url);

exit(0);

lj_friends.cgi, by Matt Cashner

#!/usr/bin/perl

# Provides an rss feed of a paid user's LiveJournal friends list
# Full entries, protected entries, etc.
# Add to your favorite rss reader as
# http://your.site.com/cgi-bin/lj_friends.cgi?user=USER&password=PASSWORD

use warnings;
use strict;

use WWW::Mechanize;
use CGI;

my $cgi = CGI->new();
my $form = $cgi->Vars;

my $agent = WWW::Mechanize->new();

$agent->get('http://www.livejournal.com/login.bml');
$agent->form_number('3');
$agent->field('user',$form->{user});
$agent->field('password',$form->{password});
$agent->submit();
$agent->get('http://www.livejournal.com/customview.cgi?user='.$form->{user}.'&styleid=225596&checkcookies=1');
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
print $agent->content();

Hacking Movable Type, by Dan Rinzel

    use WWW::Mechanize;

    # a tool to automatically post entries to a moveable type weblog, and set arbitary creation dates

    my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
    my %entry;
    $entry->{title} = "Test AutoEntry Title";
    $entry->{btext} = "Test AutoEntry Body";
    $entry->{date} = '2002-04-15 14:18:00';
    my $start = qq|http://my.blog.site/mt.cgi|;

    $mech->get($start);
    $mech->field('username','und3f1n3d');
    $mech->field('password','obscur3d');
    $mech->submit(); # to get login cookie
    $mech->get(qq|$start?__mode=view&_type=entry&blog_id=1|);
    $mech->form('entry_form');
    $mech->field('title',$entry->{title});
    $mech->field('category_id',1); # adjust as needed
    $mech->field('text',$entry->{btext});
    $mech->field('status',2); # publish, or 1 = draft
    $results = $mech->submit(); 

    # if we're ok with this entry being datestamped "NOW" (no {date} in %entry)
    # we're done. Otherwise, time to be tricksy
    # MT returns a 302 redirect from this form. the redirect itself contains a <body onload=""> handler
    # which takes the user to an editable version of the form where the create date can be edited	
    # MT date format of YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS is the only one that won't error out

    if ($entry->{date} && $entry->{date} =~ /^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}\s+\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}/) {
	# travel the redirect
	$results = $mech->get($results->{_headers}->{location});
	$results->{_content} =~ /<body onLoad="([^\"]+)"/is;
	my $js = $1;
	$js =~ /\'([^']+)\'/;
	$results = $mech->get($start.$1);
	$mech->form('entry_form');
	$mech->field('created_on_manual',$entry->{date});
	$mech->submit();
    }

get-despair, by Randal Schwartz

Randal submitted this bot that walks the despair.com site sucking down all the pictures.

    use strict; 
    $|++;
     
    use WWW::Mechanize;
    use File::Basename; 
      
    my $m = WWW::Mechanize->new;
     
    $m->get("http://www.despair.com/indem.html");
     
    my @top_links = @{$m->links};
      
    for my $top_link_num (0..$#top_links) {
	next unless $top_links[$top_link_num][0] =~ /^http:/; 
	 
	$m->follow($top_link_num) or die "can't follow $top_link_num";
	 
	print $m->uri, "\n";
	for my $image (grep m{^http://store4}, map $_->[0], @{$m->links}) { 
	    my $local = basename $image;
	    print " $image...", $m->mirror($image, $local)->message, "\n"
	}
	 
	$m->back or die "can't go back";
    }