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/ WWW::Mechanize::Examples

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.

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";
    }