how to read the yahoo Inbox mail using www::Mechanize module?

vasanthgk91 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

SEE my coding..how i read Inbox mail after submission?

sub loginyahoomail()
{

  my ( $user, $password ) = @_;

  my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();

  $mech->get( "https://mail.yahoo.com" );

  my $c = $mech->content;

  if ( $c =~ m/login_form/ )
  {
    print "Login form coming===\n";
    $mech->form_name( 'login_form' );
    $mech->set_fields('$user','$password');
    $mech->submit();
  }

  $c = $mech->content;
 print "$c";
}
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After what i will do i don't know

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Re: how to read the yahoo Inbox mail using www::Mechanize module? by marto (Cardinal) on Aug 07, 2013 at 08:10 UTC
Why are you trying to scrape a web interface to a mailbox when they provide IMAP access? I think you need to research the technology underlying the services you're trying to access. Attempting to scrape this violates their terms of service. They're also a really poor email platform these days IMHO, and have been for some years.	[reply]
Re: how to read the yahoo Inbox mail using www::Mechanize module? by Anonymous Monk on Aug 07, 2013 at 06:46 UTC
step 1, don't :) because a) you don't know how b) yahoo's just going to change the html under your nose, Mail::Client::Yahoo/rt://MailClientYahoo	[reply]
Re^2: how to read the yahoo Inbox mail using www::Mechanize module? by vasanthgk91 (Sexton) on Aug 07, 2013 at 07:40 UTC
Select Folder failed on Folder Stats `use Mail::Client::Yahoo; my $y = Mail::Client::Yahoo->login( username => 'vasanthgk91@yahoo.com', password => 'password', secure => 0 ); my $Inbox=$y->select_folder('inbox'); print "$Inbox";` [download] This is also not working	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: how to read the yahoo Inbox mail using www::Mechanize module? by Corion (Patriarch) on Aug 07, 2013 at 08:01 UTC
Yahoo Mail IMAP Access tells me that you should be able to use any of the IMAP modules to access Yahoo mail.	[reply]
Re^4: how to read the yahoo Inbox mail using www::Mechanize module? by vasanthgk91 (Sexton) on Aug 07, 2013 at 08:29 UTC
Re^3: how to read the yahoo Inbox mail using www::Mechanize module? by Anonymous Monk on Aug 07, 2013 at 07:52 UTC
This is also not working This is the point. Look at the bug cue. Look at the source. Stop trying this. Look at YPOPs! -- 9 years is an ETERNITY to keep scraping yahoo, and after this eternity the developers stopped trying. Try this instead, ask yahoo how to programmatic-ally access their website and see what they tell you.	[reply]
Re: how to read the yahoo Inbox mail using www::Mechanize module? by Anonymous Monk on Aug 07, 2013 at 13:33 UTC
`sub loginyahoomail() {` [download] Don't put those parentheses in there. Prototypes are bad, mmkay? Also, you're probably calling your functions in the "wrong" way (with the `&`) if Perl is letting you call that sub with the two arguments it is expecting.	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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