INteracting with a website, with Perl

Hi

Is it possible to interact with a web site, with the Perl language?

That is, go to the URL, "enter" data in some fields (that would be a user
and password), "click" on a link (connect button) and then read the data
displayed on the page to extract data from it. Write this data to a flat
file for later processing.

If you could show me how to do that, or give me pointers to some
documentation specific to this kind of task, I'd be very happy!

What I need to do, is to get some data from a web page and make a report out
of that, later on (let`s say a monthly summary of the values found every day
on the web site).

BTW the site is a secured site (https)

Thanks !

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Re: INteracting with a website, with Perl

In article <%9aed.73$dq4.3793@tor-nn1.netcom.ca>, Syltrem
wrote:

> Hi
>
> Is it possible to interact with a web site, with the Perl language?

Yes. Check out the LWP module on CPAN and the web scraping proxy at

http://www.research.att.com/~hpk/wsp/

Re: INteracting with a website, with Perl

Jim Gibson wrote:

> In article <%9aed.73$dq4.3793@tor-nn1.netcom.ca>, Syltrem
> wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to interact with a web site, with the Perl language?

> Yes. Check out the LWP module on CPAN and the web scraping proxy at
>
> http://www.research.att.com/~hpk/wsp/

See also 'perldoc lwpcook' for some cookbook examples.

Re: INteracting with a website, with Perl

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:34:49 -0000, "David K. Wall"
wrote:

>Jim Gibson wrote:
>
>> In article <%9aed.73$dq4.3793@tor-nn1.netcom.ca>, Syltrem
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Is it possible to interact with a web site, with the Perl language?
>
>> Yes. Check out the LWP module on CPAN and the web scraping proxy at
>>
>> http://www.research.att.com/~hpk/wsp/
>
>See also 'perldoc lwpcook' for some cookbook examples.

And Check out WWW::Mechanize also at CPAN