NAME

WWW::HtmlUnit - Inline::Java based wrapper of the HtmlUnit library

SYNOPSIS

  use WWW::HtmlUnit;
  my $webClient = WWW::HtmlUnit->new;
  my $page = $webClient->getPage("http://google.com/");
  my $f = $page->getFormByName('f');
  my $submit = $f->getInputByName("btnG");
  my $query  = $f->getInputByName("q");
  $page = $query->type("HtmlUnit");
  $page = $query->type("\n");

  my $content = $page->asXml;
  print "Result:\n$content\n\n";

DESCRIPTION

This is a wrapper around the HtmlUnit library (HtmlUnit version 2.5 for this release). It includes the HtmlUnit jar itself and it's dependencies. All this library really does is find the jars and load them up using Inline::Java.

The reason all this is interesting? HtmlUnit has very good javascript support, so you can automate, scrape, or test javascript-required websites.

See especially the HtmlUnit documentation on their site for deeper API documentation, http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/apidocs/.

METHODS

$webClient = WWW::HtmlUnit->new($browser_name)

This is just a shortcut for

  $webClient = WWW::HtmlUnit::com::gargoylesoftware::htmlunit::WebClient->new;

The optional $browser_name allows you to specify which browser version to pass to the WebClient->new method. You could pass "FIREFOX_3" for example, to make the engine especially try to emulate Firefox 3 quirks, I imagine.

SEE ALSO

http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/, Inline::Java

AUTHOR

  Brock Wilcox <awwaiid@thelackthereof.org> - http://thelackthereof.org/

COPYRIGHT

  Copyright (c) 2009 Brock Wilcox <awwaiid@thelackthereof.org>. All rights
  reserved.  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

  HtmlUnit library includes the following copyright:

      Copyright (c) 2002-2009 Gargoyle Software Inc.

      Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
      you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
      You may obtain a copy of the License at
      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

      Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
      distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
      WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
      See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
      limitations under the License.