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WWW::Mechanize::Cookbook(3pm)  User Contributed Perl Documentation  WWW::Mechanize::Cookbook(3pm)



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 Andy Lester "<andy AT petdance.com>"

       Later contributions by Peter Scott, Mark Stosberg and others.



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