"If the site doesn't like what your script is doing when you're signed in, they can let you know. I really would like to work up this example, but with WMC instead. My partner and I will watch Netflix, HBO, Amazon, and we're always trying to match the actors up to where we've seen them last, so I will get on my android and make the actual keystrokes on other occasions."

Have you looked at the many utilities on cpan for scraping data from IMDB? While packages exist here is a short proof of concept for accessing data, just a short (sub optimal) example to get you started:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use feature 'say';
use Mojo::URL;
use Mojo::Util qw(trim);
use Mojo::UserAgent;

my $imdburl = 'http://www.imdb.com/search/title?title=Caddyshack';

# pretend to be a browser
my $uaname = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (
+KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/40.0.2214.93 Safari/537.36';

my $ua = Mojo::UserAgent->new;
$ua->max_redirects(5)->connect_timeout(20)->request_timeout(20);
$ua->transactor->name( $uaname );

# find search results
my $dom = $ua->get( $imdburl )->res->dom;

# assume first match
my $filmurl = $dom->find('a[href^=/title]')->first->attr('href');

# extract film id
my $filmid  = Mojo::URL->new( $filmurl )->path->parts->[-1];

# get details of film
$dom = $ua->get( "https://www.imdb.com/title/$filmid/" )->res->dom;

# print film details
say trim( $dom->at('div.title_wrapper > h1')->text ) . ' (' . trim( $d
+om->at('#titleYear > a')->text ) .')';

# print actor/character names
foreach my $cast ( $dom->find('table.cast_list > tr:not(:first-child)'
+)->each ){
  say trim ($cast->at('td:nth-of-type(2) > a')->text ) . ' as ' . trim
+ ( $cast->at('td.character')->all_text );
}
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Output:

Caddyshack (1980)
Chevy Chase as Ty Webb
Rodney Dangerfield as Al Czervik
Ted Knight as Judge Elihu Smails
Michael O'Keefe as Danny Noonan
Bill Murray as Carl Spackler
Sarah Holcomb as Maggie O'Hooligan
Scott Colomby as Tony D'Annunzio
Cindy Morgan as Lacey Underall
Dan Resin as Dr. Beeper
Henry Wilcoxon as The Bishop
Elaine Aiken as Mrs. Noonan
Albert Salmi as Mr. Noonan
Ann Ryerson as Grace
Brian Doyle-Murray as Lou Loomis
Hamilton Mitchell as Motormouth
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See also Mojo::UserAgent, Mojo::DOM, Mojo::URL, ojo (should you want one liners). You could adapt the above to print all matches and prompt for which one you want, rather than assume the first one (since remakes, sequels/prequels etc..), allow you to select the actor and return the details of all the other films/shows they have been in.

Update: If you would prefer some sort of web interface to the results wrap the above around Mojolicious::Lite