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Perlbeginner1 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

hello

I'm trying to learn the basics of the mechanize module and i'm still very new to programming. Does anyone know of some good places to learn the very basics, say with some examples as well?

note - i found this example on http://search.cpan.org/~petdance/WWW-Mechanize-1.66/lib/WWW/Mechanize/Examples.pod
it is nice - indeed

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:/; $m->follow_link( n=>$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->link +s}) { my $local = basename $image; print " $image...", $m->mirror($image, $local)->message, " +\n" } $m->back or die "can't go back"; }


this runs nice and gives a nice output!

Question: Does anybody have a even shorter example of mecha!?
i am looking for a short few-line-examplescript for Newbies

look forward

btw: Update: we also have For WWW::Machanize, cookbook for several more examples.

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Re: www::mechanize - the basics of a great perl module
by morgon (Priest) on Oct 25, 2010 at 23:24 UTC
    use strict; use WWW::Mechanize; my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new; $mech->get("http://www.perlmonks.org", ':content_file' => "perlmonks.h +tml");
    There - one get only. Short enough?

    How to add error handling is covered in the documentation.

Re: www::mechanize - the basics of a great perl module
by sundialsvc4 (Abbot) on Oct 26, 2010 at 02:44 UTC

    Please be as specific as possible ... and don’t worry in the slightest about being “very new to programming.”

    Believe me... we have all “been there.”

      hi sunidalsvc4 / great to hear from you! mille grazie! many many thanks! i come back later! beginner1