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Sunday June 29, 2003
09:49 PM
Barely-new WWW::Mechanize, with a handy tool for Mechers
The new WWW::Mechanize is out, and it's not much of an improvement in the module, but for those of you who are mucking about in the forms you're meching all the time, I added a utility called "mech-forms". To wit:
$ mech-forms http://www.altavista.com
GET http://www.altavista.com/r
r= (hidden)
q= (hidden)
avkw=xytx (hidden)
GET http://www.altavista.com/web/results
q=
<NONAME>=FIND (submit)
kgs=0 (radio) [*0|1]
kls=1 (radio) [0|*1]
avkw=xytx (hidden)
Makes scraping much easier to not have to dig thru HTML....
Or is it a BUG?"
"Let's call it an accidental feature. :-)"
--Larry Wall in <6909@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
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